Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Russell King wrote:

> 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.

You didn't look at linux-2.4/kernel/module.c lately, did you? ;)

--Kai