On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > module constructor. (Well, that's just one of the problems..)
> >
> > So netdevice methods such as open(), do_ioctl(), set_multicast_list(),
> > etc can be and are called when the module refcount is zero.
>
> Just like the block drivers until Al Viro's fix. The same fix makes even
> more sense here as open/close are even lower impact. And whoever is calling
> driver functions without the driver locked in memory..
ITYM "character" - block ones are still not there. It's actually worse
than that - we are freely passing the pointer to the structure while the
counter is zero. Yuck...
ObOtherSubsystems: as soon as resync with Linus' tree will be more or
less done.
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