Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:03:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:02:13 -0500 Received: from intra.cyclades.com ([64.186.161.6]:17933 "EHLO intra.cyclades.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:02:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3E25254A.9050307@cyclades.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:09:30 +0000 From: Henrique Gobbi Reply-To: henrique.gobbi@cyclades.com Organization: Cyclades Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver References: <20030113054708.GA3604@kroah.com> <20030114200719.B4077@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030114220859.GA17226@kroah.com> <20030115100001.D31372@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi !!! Noob question !! Could anyone contribute to my poor kernel knowledge base and explain me what is BKL you're all talking about ? thank you Henrique 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/