Re: [PATCH] module loader should not complain about unknown symbol

From: Peter Teoh
Date: Mon Nov 12 2007 - 23:08:47 EST


On Nov 13, 2007 10:52 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 09:23:12 Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Better might be to put in a waitqueue and wake it up whenever a module is
> > deleted or changes status. Then use_module() can wait if
> > strong_try_module_get() returns -EBUSY (up to 30 seconds, then print a
> > warning and fail).
>

Will it ever go into a deadlock (or likewise DOS scenario) if modA dep
on modB, but modB also dep on modA?
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