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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:26:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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.

You didn't look at linux-2.4/kernel/module.c lately, did you? ;)

--Kai


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