Re: [dm-devel] Re: [git pull] device-mapper patches for 2.6.29

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 22:49:19 EST


On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:32:51AM +0800, Cheng Renquan (çäå) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:15:58AM +0800, Cheng Renquan (çäå) wrote:
> >> So now maybe we can add a null macro to module_refcount if
> >> CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD undefined?
> > Do we even need the test at all?

> So you mean add "#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD ..." to dm-target.c? I
> can do that, but I really don't know a better solution without
> conditional compiling?

I mean under what set of circumstances could the test of the module refcount
here fail, and if the test was simply removed are there any cases where that
would matter?

Alasdair
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