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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:00:01 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver
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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