Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:12:08 +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. > > The TTY layer isn't "recent code", its "very old code"
Oh, I know, I was just thinking aloud and not making much sense, ( :-) ) - what I really meant was is anybody writing new code without the near-future BKL changes in mind, and if so, shouldn't it be avoided now to save work in 2.7? I.E. is the BKL officially depreciated?
> and (IMO) removing the BKL from the TTY layer is a far from trivial > matter. > > I believe at this point in the 2.5 cycle, we should not be looking > to remove the BKL.
I think there were hints in another thread of a TTY layer overhaul in 2.7.
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