RT-Thread/rt-thread — pull request #121 by grissiom (2013-07-09 04:11:00+00:00)
Title: device: add ref_count support

This is a simple work around to the current device stack design. A
ref_count could let different modules to open/close the same device
independently without interfere others in some degree.

But there is still some data shared between the modules, like flag,
open_flag and user_data. Moreover, it won't yield an error if A open a
device, and B read from it before open it in B. Maybe alloc a new handle
in rt_device_open will be the ultimate solution. But that is much bigger
change and we may leave it to future development.