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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:47:57 +0200
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 05:13, Rusty Russell wrote:
> B) We do not handle the "half init problem" where a module fails to load, eg.
> 	a = register_xxx();
> 	b = register_yyy();
> 	if (!b) {
> 		unregister_xxx(a);
> 		return -EBARF;
> 	}
>   Someone can start using "a", and we are in trouble when we remove
>   the failed module.

No we are not.  The module remains in the 'stopped' state
throughout the entire initialization process, as it should and
does, in my model.

-- 
Daniel
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