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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:44:12 -0800
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:36:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The thing is, the module loading in particular is not necessarily
> happening in the same context as what *started* the module loading. A
> module loader will request the module from user space, and then later
> user space - through possibly a totally unrelated process - will
> finish it. So there is no "myself". There's not even necessarily any
> relationship that the kernel even knows about, because the module
> loading request can have gone from usermode_helper over something like
> dbus to systemd.
> 
> See?

Right.  Gees, there's even no way to link them.

-- 
tejun