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SubjectRe: [linux-usb-devel] How should an exit routine wait for release() callbacks?
Alan Stern wrote:

> On the other hand, this proposal involves adding a fair amount of overhead
> (all those .owner fields) for a rather small benefit. And it involves
> modifying a core kernel subsystem (kernel/module.c). All to prevent
> certain unlikely sorts of errors when removing a module -- something which
> Linus has said repeatedly need not be supported terribly well.
>
> So I'm uncertain whether other people will be in favor of all this.

I think Linus is in error here. Either do it right or not at all. I
would say that modules should work *always* and without any conceptual
problem.
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