Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:00:01 +0000


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.

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