Re: RFC/Preliminary patch - simpler raceless module unloading

From: Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 10:05:47 EST

I wrote:
> I plan to port net_device, filesystem, file_operations,
> block_device_operations, and device_driver to use it. So if what
> I've described above is too verbose, it should become clearer once
> I post some ports of code to it.

        Here is a preliminary port of fs/filesystems.c, although I have
not done the clean-ups it enables. I am running it now and have verified
that I can at least load and unload a filesystem module and that I'm
still prevented from unloading a filesystem module that is in use.

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