public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz,
	zippel@linux-m68k.org, davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Modules with list
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:53:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021129013010.79DF72C33D@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:25:50 -0800." <200211280025.QAA07845@baldur.yggdrasil.com>

In message <200211280025.QAA07845@baldur.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> Rusty Russel wrote:

That's Russell 8)

> >Sorry, that's why I said "*If O_NONBLOCK* is specified" (ie. still
> >drop it for the --wait case).
> 
> 	Oops!  Sorry for misreading your message.
> 
> 	Even though it was not responsive to what you described, I do
> hope you see my point about the problem with "rmmod --wait".

But's it's an absolute requirement, to make modules removable in some
circumstances, otherwise you end up being starved and the module
cannot be removed (security modules and netfilter modules strike me as
the obvious cases, but there are probably more).

Cheers!
Rusty.
PS.  You're right, net/ipv4/ doesn't use skb->destructor.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-29  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-28  0:25 Modules with list Adam J. Richter
2002-11-28 23:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-29  8:23 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-28  1:54 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 19:04 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 18:19 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 22:42 ` Keith Owens
2002-11-27  7:22 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 23:15 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-27  7:01 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26 16:18 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 17:05 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-11-26  6:53 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26  6:49 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26 22:40 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-26  4:06 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26  5:04 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-25 22:39 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-25 22:11 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26  0:35 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-26  7:57   ` Ingo Oeser

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20021129013010.79DF72C33D@lists.samba.org \
    --to=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
    --cc=adam@yggdrasil.com \
    --cc=davem@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=vandrove@vc.cvut.cz \
    --cc=zippel@linux-m68k.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox