Alan Cox writes:
> > explicit module support, I'm wondering what's wrong with simply
> > controlling the module count in the module's open()/release()
> > functions in these cases?
>
> By the time you enter the open function it may have been unloaded
So unregister driver methods early on in module removal (before code
pages are removed) and wait for the module usage counter to hit zero
again before returning from the module cleanup function.
Regards,
Richard....
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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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