Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Locking Between User Context and Soft IRQs in 2.4.0 | Date | Tue, 07 Nov 2000 00:18:50 +1100 |
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On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 08:09:28 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote: >You are missing the point here. If a driver is "old style", where >owner==NULL and it manually calls MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT, things are >pretty much ok. There is a tiny race, but the system is mostly intact.
Small race * size of install base * auto unload frequency => too many bug reports for my liking. But we agree that requiring dev->open is 2.5 material.
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