Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:31:35 +0100 | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver |
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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.
Um, my copy of 2.4 module.c still has lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() all over it and I'm quite sure that didn't change until 2.5.47.
bye, Roman
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