On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> this question is short and simple - is it true that only the drivers need
> to set fop->owner to THIS_MODULE and *not* the modular filesystems also?
>
> Because I see, for example, microcode.c has been updated to have it but
> filesystems weren't..
For filesystems it's done on file_system_type level. If you have it
mounted you should not allow rmmod and once you've got that protection you
don't have to care about opened files - kinda hard to umount while
something is opened.
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