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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:55:01 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       adam@yggdrasil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proposed module init race fix.
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> And see remove_proc_entry, or notifier_chain_unregister for
> counterexamples.  No doubt there are others.

Perhaps some convenient include file should contain something like
this:

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
#define whistleblower() \
  printk(KERN_ERR "this interface may call back after deregistration\n");
#else
#define whistleblower() /* no failure is silent in Oopsland */
#endif

? ;-)

- Werner

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