On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:43:22AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:25 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Mike, I've reverted this patch, and I don't see any references leaking. > > And, as your patch released the reference on the driver, and the > > module_add_driver() call would not grab a reference to the driver, only > > the module kobject, I don't see what you were trying to fix with this > > patch. > > > > Do you have a test case that this fixes? > > What it fixed for me was the hard hang reported below. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/96
What specific module are you trying to unload that causes the hang? I think it might just be a problem with that module, and not with all others. So, I'm going to revert your patch and work to try to find the real cause of this problem. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
