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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:34:54 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Eric W. Biederman writes:

> Well the basic problem is that for any piece of code that can be modular
> we need a way to ensure all threads it has running are shutdown when we
> remove the module.

The EEH code can't be modular, and wouldn't make any sense to be
modular, since it's part of the infrastructure for accessing PCI
devices.

Paul.