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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
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Subject: Re: Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jan 2003 18:19:57 -0800."
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In message <200301070219.SAA12905@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> 	Here is a way to replace all of the specialized "stop CPU"
> locking code in kernel/module.c with an rw_semaphore by using
> down_read_trylock in try_module_get() and down_write when beginning to
> unload the module.

And now you can't modularize netfilter modules.

Rusty.
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