Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:42:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: pre-patch-2.1.107 breaks kmod |
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > But then it returns the error to kmod, and now the other thread that tried > > to load it thinks it failed. Boom! > > [Rude words] - yep.
Note that pre-107 certainly did this wrong, and didn't allow the kind of recursion we _do_ want to allow. Which is why it got reverted. But we should be able to handle this _some_ way by doing the locking right.
I'd welcome suggestions on which region to lock. It's nontrivial, but I bet there is some scheme that makes everybody happy..
Linus
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