Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:38:37 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine" |
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Jike Song wrote: > On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> wrote: >> Hi Rusty, >> >> I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module loading/unloading >> and the stop machine. > > I'm curious to know why it is called `stop machine', which is a queer > name without any relationship with its function.
I guess it's "stop the rest of the machine" and run this. Maybe it's misnamed but stop_machine is kind of cool. :-)
-- tejun
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