Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:30:03 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > 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.
Surely no recent code should be making that assumption anyway - the BKL is being removed all over the place.
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