Re: [RFC] add module reference to struct tty_driver

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 05:30:03 EST


> > Woah! Hm, this is going to cause lots of problems in drivers that have
> > been assuming that the BKL is grabbed during module unload, and during
> > open(). Hm, time to just fallback on the argument, "module unloading is
> > unsafe" :(
>
> Note that its the same in 2.4 as well. iirc, the BKL was removed from
> module loading/unloading sometime in the 2.3 timeline.

Surely no recent code should be making that assumption anyway - the
BKL is being removed all over the place.

John.
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