Re: [PATCH] Oops and panic while unloading holder of pm_idle

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, BlaisorBlade wrote:

> > There aren't many users of pm_idle 
> > outside of arch/*/kernel/process.c
> Both APM and ACPI set pm_idle, and both can be modular. It seems, however, 
> they are the only such ones. And since they APM and ACPI refuse to be both 
> loaded, we cannot have (actually) two modules which override pm_idle. So 
> you're right.

There are a few other issues with pm_idle, preempt and modular drivers 
which someone else is looking at, we'll see how things go from there.

Thanks,
	Zwane

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