Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:09:30 +0000 | From | Henrique Gobbi <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver |
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Hi !!!
Noob question !!
Could anyone contribute to my poor kernel knowledge base and explain me what is BKL you're all talking about ?
thank you Henrique
Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >>Woah! Hm, this is going to cause lots of problems in drivers that have >>been assuming that the BKL is grabbed during module unload, and during >>open(). Hm, time to just fallback on the argument, "module unloading is >>unsafe" :( > > > Note that its the same in 2.4 as well. iirc, the BKL was removed from > module loading/unloading sometime in the 2.3 timeline
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