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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:36:58 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OKS] Module removal
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I wrote:
> It's not really just the module information. If I can, say, get
> callbacks from something even after I unregister, I may well
> have destroyed the data I need to process the callbacks, and
> oops or worse.

Actually, if module exit synchronizes properly, even the
return-after-removal case shouldn't exist, because we'd simply
wait for this call to return.

Hmm, interesting. Did I just make the whole problem go away,
or is travel fatigue playing tricks on my brain ? :-)

- Werner

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