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SubjectRe: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:02:27AM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:10:16PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> > I am not sure, if pinning the kobject for the life time of symlink (dentry)
> > may result in same problems like rmmod hang which we saw in case of pinning
> > kobject for the life time of its directory (dentry).
>
> Erm... If rmmod _ever_ waits for refcount on kobject to reach zero, it's
> already broken. Do you have any examples of such behaviour?

Every single module which unregisters a struct device_driver.

* driver_unregister - remove driver from system.
* @drv: driver.
...
* This will block until the driver refcount reaches 0, and it is
* released. Only modular drivers will call this function, and we
* have to guarantee that it won't complete, letting the driver
* unload until all references are gone.

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