On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:04:31AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>
> > >>> phase one: disable auto-unload.
> > >
> > >> Phase 1 has been done.
> > >
> > > for the whole kernel?
> >
> > No. Only for this specific module.
>
> right - my suggestion was that since this problem affects a
> large class of modules, until that is fixed, we should
> disable auto unload globally.
Does almost everything get loaded and auto-unloaded at boot time?
If so that that isn't really a good idea.
It also sounds like manual unloads of drivers can happen when the
device is open - and that is also bad.
A manual unload probably isn't going to race with open or close though.
Disallowing unload completely would be a pain when developing drivers.
David
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