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From: Henrique Gobbi <henrique2.gobbi@cyclades.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:09:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E25254A.9050307@cyclades.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030115100001.D31372@flint.arm.linux.org.uk

Hi !!!

Noob question !!

Could anyone contribute to my poor kernel knowledge base and explain me 
what is BKL you're all talking about ?

thank you
Henrique

Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>>Woah!  Hm, this is going to cause lots of problems in drivers that have
>>been assuming that the BKL is grabbed during module unload, and during
>>open().  Hm, time to just fallback on the argument, "module unloading is
>>unsafe" :(
> 
> 
> Note that its the same in 2.4 as well.  iirc, the BKL was removed from
> module loading/unloading sometime in the 2.3 timeline


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-15 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-13  5:47 [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver Greg KH
2003-01-13  9:27 ` Russell King
2003-01-13 17:12   ` Greg KH
2003-01-13 19:51   ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-14 20:07 ` Russell King
2003-01-14 22:08   ` Greg KH
2003-01-15 10:00     ` Russell King
2003-01-15  9:09       ` Henrique Gobbi [this message]
2003-01-15 10:30       ` John Bradford
2003-01-15 10:40         ` Russell King
2003-01-15 11:12           ` John Bradford
2003-01-15 16:03           ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-15 15:26       ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-15 16:31       ` Roman Zippel

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