Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:19:04 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] [PATCH] drivers/scsi/ch.c: Remove BKL in ch_open |
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:14:03 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > But module load/unload does > > > > it does? > > > > looking at the code.... so far failing to find where. > > Interesting - it used to and there is code that still relies on that.
I can't find that to be the case anymore though
> > The more general problem of > > register_chrdev > open > do something > error > unload > whoops > > definitely needs looking at however.
absolutely
we used to have the same issue with networking devices, and there it ended up with a split "allocate" and "register"
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