On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:40 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > My concern is that you're dropping the module mutex around ->exit now. > > I don't *think* this should matter, but it's worth considering. > > We always did that. Before the patch the code segment looked like the > following.
Hi Tejun, Thanks, misread patch. > > I really wonder if an explicit "kill_this_attribute()" is a better way > > to go than this... > > I think this sort of temporary unload blocking would be useful for other > cases like this. I hope not: this doesn't work in general. Calling into a module after ->exit has called assumes that the exit function doesn't free up or overwrite stuff the other functions need. Cheers, Rusty. - 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/