Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:47:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:47:08 -0500 Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.137]:26117 "EHLO smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:47:08 -0500 Message-ID: <3E258CE7.D5E34C6E@linux-m68k.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:31:35 +0100 From: Roman Zippel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Greg KH , 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Um, my copy of 2.4 module.c still has lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() all over it and I'm quite sure that didn't change until 2.5.47. bye, Roman - 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/