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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Proposed module init race fix.
On 2003-01-15, Rusty Russell wrote:
>It's possible to start using a module, and then have it fail
>initialization. In 2.4, this resulted in random behaviour. One
>solution to this is to make all interfaces two-stage: reserve
>everything you need (which might fail), the activate them. This
>means changing about 1600 modules, and deprecating every interface
>they use.

Could you explain this "random behavior" of 2.4 a bit more?
As far as I know, if a module's init function fails, it must
unregister everything that it has registered up to that point.

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