Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:31:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:31:57 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:27400 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:31:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:42:27 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Alan Cox Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.64 Message-ID: <20030306014227.B22857@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030305143608.A24878@infradead.org> <20030305181927.C20788@suse.de> <1046912796.15950.27.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1046912796.15950.27.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:06:37AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 25 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 -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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/