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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:42:27 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:06:37AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

 > > Only the bits that did the module locking crap, which
 > > is unnecessary afaics.  If you look at the files touched,
 > > there's still nowayout used in the other functions.
 > 
 > You need to lock the module in memory in the nowayout case
 > Otherwise the module can be unloaded (which is ok), and then
 > reloaded (which is not).
 > 
 > So yes, you broke NOWAYOUT. Its a bit subtle and under
 > documented I admit.

Bugger. Ok, I'll add that to the TODO.

        Dave

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