There are race conditions while module unloading, present in both 2.2 and 2.4
kernels. Efforts are being made in handling these races by using
read-copy-update mechanism (http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rclock.html)
and by using synchronize_kernel() (from Rusty Russell, Keith Owens).
Regards,
Maneesh
-- Maneesh Soni <smaneesh@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rclock.html IBM Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/