From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:00:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030115100001.D31372@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030114220859.GA17226@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:08:59PM -0800
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Woah! Hm, this is going to cause lots of problems in drivers that have
> been assuming that the BKL is grabbed during module unload, and during
> open(). Hm, time to just fallback on the argument, "module unloading is
> unsafe" :(
Note that its the same in 2.4 as well. iirc, the BKL was removed from
module loading/unloading sometime in the 2.3 timeline.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-15 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-13 5:47 [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver Greg KH
2003-01-13 9:27 ` Russell King
2003-01-13 17:12 ` Greg KH
2003-01-13 19:51 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-14 20:07 ` Russell King
2003-01-14 22:08 ` Greg KH
2003-01-15 10:00 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-01-15 9:09 ` Henrique Gobbi
2003-01-15 10:30 ` John Bradford
2003-01-15 10:40 ` Russell King
2003-01-15 11:12 ` John Bradford
2003-01-15 16:03 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-15 15:26 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-15 16:31 ` Roman Zippel
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