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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