Re: owner field in `struct fs'

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 17:22:55 EST


On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> 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.

Module removal can not start until the counter is zero, what are you
talking about?

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