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SubjectRe: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared
On Wed, May 07 2003, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 May 2003 17:16, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > Has anyone solved the register_ioctl32_conversion() from module problem
> > > yet? The patch will break if you build scsi as a module because you
> > > never unregister the conversion helper on unload.
> > > Even if you do the unregister from a module_exit() function, there
> > > will still be a small race against running ioctl handlers. I suppose
> > > we have to add an 'owner' field to struct ioctl_trans in order to
> > > get it right.
> >
> > Its in drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c. AFAICS, its always compiled in, so
> > I'm not hitting that problem *yet*.
>
> No, it has indeed been possible to build scsi as a module for a long
> time and in that case, scsi_ioctl becomes part of that module. The same
> problem also exists for any user of register_ioctl32_conversion(), e.g.
> ieee1394.

drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c is not part of the scsi layer, it provides
generic SG_IO functionality for scsi-like block drivers.

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Jens Axboe

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