Re: Several Misc SCSI updates...

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 16:40:19 EST


On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Doug Ledford wrote:
>
> Won't work. module->live is what Rusty uses to indicate that the module
> is in the process of unloading, which is when we *do* want the attempt to
> module_get() to fail.

That's fine, as long as "module_get()" is the only thing that cares. Just
make it go "live" early as you indicate, and everybody should be happy. I
certainly agree that it should be illegal to do more module_get()'s once
we've already started unloading..

                Linus

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