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From: Robert Marquardt <marquardt@codemercs.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] How should an exit routine wait for release() callbacks?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:51:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46238D75.4010409@codemercs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0704161028330.4861-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Alan Stern wrote:

> On the other hand, this proposal involves adding a fair amount of overhead
> (all those .owner fields) for a rather small benefit.  And it involves
> modifying a core kernel subsystem (kernel/module.c).  All to prevent
> certain unlikely sorts of errors when removing a module -- something which
> Linus has said repeatedly need not be supported terribly well.
> 
> So I'm uncertain whether other people will be in favor of all this.

I think Linus is in error here. Either do it right or not at all. I 
would say that modules should work *always* and without any conceptual 
problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-16 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-12 21:23 How should an exit routine wait for release() callbacks? Alan Stern
2007-04-13  9:03 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-13 11:42   ` Markus Rechberger
2007-04-13 13:24     ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-13 14:15       ` Markus Rechberger
2007-04-13 14:27         ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-13 15:24           ` Alan Stern
2007-04-16  8:53             ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-16 14:43               ` Alan Stern
2007-04-16 14:51                 ` Robert Marquardt [this message]
2007-04-16 15:05                 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-16 22:12             ` [linux-usb-devel] " Greg KH
2007-04-17  7:26               ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-17 15:59               ` Alan Stern

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