From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Andersen Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent module unloading for legacy IDE chipset drivers Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:41:04 -0600 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040422004104.GA19969@codepoet.org> References: <200404212219.24622.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:27060 "EHLO codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263752AbUDVAlE (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:41:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404212219.24622.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed Apr 21, 2004 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > It is unsafe thing to do (no locking, no reference counting etc). > Just remove module_exit() as it was done for IDE PCI drivers. Out of curiosity, what would be needed to make it safe to unload all ide modules from a system with a scsi rootfs? -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--