Sleeping in init_module / cleanup_module

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 10:11:06 EST

I've just noticed that module->cleanup() is called in 2.3 with the unload_lock
spinlock held.

Does this mean it's no longer allowed to do anything which sleeps?

(Like obtaining a semaphore so it can take itself off a driver list) 

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dwmw2

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