Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:55:26 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Several Misc SCSI updates... |
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > Won't work. module->live is what Rusty uses to indicate that the module > > is in the process of unloading, which is when we *do* want the attempt to > > module_get() to fail. > > That's fine, as long as "module_get()" is the only thing that cares. Just > make it go "live" early as you indicate, and everybody should be happy. I > certainly agree that it should be illegal to do more module_get()'s once > we've already started unloading..
On the unload side it's OK. module_get() also breaks during _init_ and that's the problem. IOW, you'll need to make every block device driver to set ->live manually. Smells like a wrong API...
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