Re: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> 
> However, should I also mention about the possibility of the following
> being in the same category; they are also typically statically
> allocated...
> 
> 	struct bus_type
> 	struct class
> 	struct platform_device
> 
> I think these may be worse than struct device_driver because I don't
> see their unregister functions even doing any form of "wait until
> unused" - so rather than being deadlock prone, they're oops-prone.
> 
> Sigh, sometimes life is <insert your favourite word to describe this>. ;(

Yeah, I agree.  For 2.7, I want to make static allocation of anything
that contains a kobject or kref not allowed to help fix things like
this.

So once again we are back at the "module unload is hard" problem :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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