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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:31:22 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [bug] hung bootup in various drivers, was: "2.6.21-rc5: known regressions"
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* Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> Something has grabbed a reference to the driver...
> 
> Oh wait, is this code a module or built into the kernel?
> 
> If it's built in, there's still a reference counting bug in the 
> module/driver hookup logic as we really don't have a "module" yet we 
> are still thinking we do as we represent it in /sys/module and create 
> the linkages.

yes - an allyesconfig bzImage kernel is definitely massively built in :)

> Kay, did you ever get a chance to look into this reference counting 
> issue?

i'll try Kay's patch.

	Ingo