From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
adaplas@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix /proc/fb oops after module removal
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:42:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080413084247.245d4711@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080412152006.02134bf3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:20:06 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:10:29 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan
> <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > /proc/fb is not removed during rmmod.
> >
> > Steps to reproduce:
> >
> > modprobe fb
> > rmmod fb
> > ls /proc
> >
>
> hm, that's the sort of thing which one would expect people to notice
> fairly soon after we added the bug. Yet it appears that the bug is
> present in at least 2.6.20 and probably earlier.
rmmod is generally a rare operation... esp for something like a framebuffer
wonder if we need a scripted action that loads all modules and then tries to
unload the ones it can
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2008-04-12 22:20 ` [PATCH] Fix /proc/fb oops after module removal Andrew Morton
2008-04-13 15:42 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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