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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:26:10 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
       Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Module Refcount & Stuff mini-FAQ
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> Ah, see other thread

Argh, there are only about a hundred threads on modules ;-)

> (weren't you at the kernel summit?).

Yes, but I hadn't paid much attention to modules before, so I only
understood about half of what you said, sorry. It was interesting
to learn that there were actually so many problems, though :-)

> There's currently no way to abort if you've exposed interfaces and then
> something fails ("don't do that" is great except noone knows that, and
> it's not always possible or nice)

Hmm, if "expose interface" == "publish symbol", why can't you simply
defer publishing until after initialization completes ? If "expose
interface" == "register something somewhere", then this has to be
undone anyway. Or am I overlooking something here ?

Thanks,
- Werner

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