Re: [RFC] my current kernel todo list

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 11:28:35 EST


On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> now the driver init sequence is not
> serialized anymore, so races are possible

since when? In 2.4.0-test8-pre2 mod->init and mod->cleanup are called
under global kernel lock. As for static drivers they are initialised from
either start_kernel() or init()->do_basic_setup() both of which take
global kernel lock.

What am I missing?

Regards,
Tigran

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