Re: pre-patch-2.1.107 breaks kmod

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:42:13 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > But then it returns the error to kmod, and now the other thread that tried
> > to load it thinks it failed. Boom!
>
> [Rude words] - yep.

Note that pre-107 certainly did this wrong, and didn't allow the kind of
recursion we _do_ want to allow. Which is why it got reverted. But we
should be able to handle this _some_ way by doing the locking right.

I'd welcome suggestions on which region to lock. It's nontrivial, but I
bet there is some scheme that makes everybody happy..

Linus

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