Re: [RFC] my current kernel todo list

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 11:37:50 EST


On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> 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.
>

Ok, I understand this now - just cheched the cardbus/pcihotplug code.

Ok, now if you do this, please leave out ne.c and hp100.c - I have the
cards for these two so I can do it and test it myself.

Regards,
Tigran

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