Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261686AbTEHPRb (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 11:17:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261688AbTEHPRb (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 11:17:31 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:750 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261686AbTEHPRa (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 11:17:30 -0400 From: Terje Malmedal To: hch@infradead.org CC: hch@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, terje.eggestad@scali.com, arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, D.A.Fedorov@inp.nsk.su In-reply-to: <20030508152543.A6895@infradead.org> (message from Christoph Hellwig on Thu, 8 May 2003 15:25:43 +0100) Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:29:55 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 20 [Christoph Hellwig] >> The only problem I can see is that different modules overloading the >> same function needs to be unloaded in the correct order. Is this the >> only reason for removing it, or am I missing something? > it's racy - and it doesn't work on half of the arches added over the > last years. Would you be so kind as to explain exactly what is racy? Just asserting that it is does not help me understand anything. -- - Terje malmedal@usit.uio.no - 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/