Re: pre-patch-2.1.107 breaks kmod
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:53:00 +0100 (BST)
> The patch does fix a real problem, though. Some kind of re-entrancy block
> is needed to make sure that there aren't two copies of "insmod" trying to
> insert the same module at the same time. It is possible that this
Why ?
One of the insmod requests will fail. All that matters is that the registering
in module namespace is atomic, not that we load a module twice and one bales
Alan
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