Re: [PATCH] Make agpsupport work with modversions

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 19:56:38 EST


> modprobe would attempt to satisfy weak external references as if they
> were normal references, including all the module dependency chains and
> reference counts. If the reference cannot be satisfied, it is set to
> zero instead of causing an error. No changes to load/unload.

I dont believe modprobe can do this race free in userspace

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