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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: alpha fp-emu vs module refcounting
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arch/alpha/math-emu/math.c still uses MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT to protect
from unloading which is

 a) unsafe
 b) in the way of nuking them as soon as 2.7 is out

any chance we could either do a try_module_get on a struct module
*fp_emul_module in alpha core code before or completely disallow module
unloading for it (by removing the cleanup_module() callback)?