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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:09:39 CDT."
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:07:38 +1100
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In message <3A0F5B73.E613050B@mandrakesoft.com> you write:
> > 12. Probably Post 2.4
> 
> >      * module remove race bugs (ipchains modules -- Rusty; won't fix for
> >        2.4)
> 
> Is this an ipchains bug, or a more general module subsystem bug?

There's a fundamental problem with any module which reduces counts in
interrupts.  Viro's `solution' doesn't apply here; there is a real
solution but I Believed In The Code Freeze.

Rusty.
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Hacking time.
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