Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:00:01 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver |
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Woah! Hm, this is going to cause lots of problems in drivers that have > been assuming that the BKL is grabbed during module unload, and during > open(). Hm, time to just fallback on the argument, "module unloading is > unsafe" :(
Note that its the same in 2.4 as well. iirc, the BKL was removed from module loading/unloading sometime in the 2.3 timeline.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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