Jike Song wrote: > On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Rusty, >> >> I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module >> loading/unloading >> and the stop machine. > > I'm curious to know why it is called `stop machine', which is a queer > name without any relationship with its function.
I guess it's "stop the rest of the machine" and run this. Maybe it's misnamed but stop_machine is kind of cool. :-) -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
