Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit

Richard Gooch
2002-07-19T00:17:00Z

Alexander Viro writes:
> Call them well-behaving modules if you wish. For these the answers
> are "yes"/"a lot of things can be"/"it's easy to handle". What's
> left? The pieces of code with really complex interfaces. And guess
> what, race-prevention is complex for these guys - and it's not just
> about rmmod races. E.g. parts of procfs, sysctls and devfs are
> still quite racy even if you compile everything into the tree and
> remove all module-related syscalls completely.

Can you point to specific problems with the current devfs code?

Regards,

Richard....
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