Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Mar 2000 06:13:01 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Problems with modules in 2.3.51 |
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Roman V. Shaposhnick wrote:
> Hi, > > I would like to mention that in 2.3.51 there is a huge problem with > modules related to recent changes in fs-register-unregister interface.
> As you can see there are extra 2 "links" to the module left.
Lovely...
> I dig the problem and have found that it seems to be a bug in > 'try_inc_mod_count'. Or in how it is used. Nevertheless, I suggest > something like splitting this function in two -- one that checks and > one that sets usecount value.
No. It should be atomic.
> I suspect who is the author of these changes ( Al, is it you ? :) ). But
Yep. I'll look at it.
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