ref count not decremented in destroy_dev()?
In my loadable module, the _attach function calls cdevsw_add() and then
make_dev(). The _detach function calls destroy_dev() and then
cdevsw_remove() but generates the following dmesg
svd(202)[ffffffff/00000000]: Warning: cdevsw_remove() called while 1
device ref!
I think the cdevsw_*() calls correctly increment and decrement the
d_refs variable in struct cdevsw. The part that confuses me is while
make_dev increments d_refs via a call to hashdev(), there doesn't seem
to be a corresponding decrement of d_refs in destroy_dev. Does anyone
know off hand where this should be happening or is my driver
unregistering incorrectly? Tnx.
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Chuck Tuffli
Agilent Technologies