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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver
To: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:30:03 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <20030115100001.D31372@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> from "Russell King" at Jan 15, 2003 10:00:01 AM
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> > Woah!  Hm, this is going to cause lots of problems in drivers that have
> > been assuming that the BKL is grabbed during module unload, and during
> > open().  Hm, time to just fallback on the argument, "module unloading is
> > unsafe" :(
> 
> Note that its the same in 2.4 as well.  iirc, the BKL was removed from
> module loading/unloading sometime in the 2.3 timeline.

Surely no recent code should be making that assumption anyway - the
BKL is being removed all over the place.

John.
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