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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Input: Remove unsafe device module references
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:00:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111101180038.GB4241@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANq1E4S07S2kNTmAxQRa4mEVKrGnS7cTHKqPoHEzLOyu3Mfqzw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:52:11PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> My solution: Some parent subsystem of us must take and release this
> module-refcnt instead of us, so this bug doesn't occur.

Yes, that is the ultimate solution for something like this.

But, in reality, we don't care about module unloading races as there are
plenty of other issues involved there where things can go bad, so we
just try the best we can :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-01 15:41 [RFC] Input: Remove unsafe device module references David Herrmann
2011-11-01 17:01 ` Greg KH
2011-11-01 17:52   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-01 17:58     ` Greg KH
2011-11-01 17:52   ` David Herrmann
2011-11-01 18:00     ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-11-01 18:09       ` David Herrmann
2011-11-01 18:18         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-02 13:45           ` David Herrmann
2011-11-02 14:43             ` Greg KH
2011-11-01 18:05     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-01 18:16       ` David Herrmann

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