In message <E135sFV-00002L-00@the-village.bc.nu> you write:
> > explicit module support, I'm wondering what's wrong with simply
> > controlling the module count in the module's open()/release()
> > functions in these cases?
>
> By the time you enter the open function it may have been unloaded
That's easy to solve by (as posted on netdev) making sure all CPUs are
running a `freeze' thread on module removal. If that's *all* it's
for, it's both overkill for struct fs, and insufficient for other
congruent cases.
Philipp Rumpf has offered to supply the patch shortly,
Rusty.
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