On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 08:18 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Given your description of this tool as a "sledgehammer," might it not be > > easier to just take and hold module_mutex for the duration of the unload > > block? > > That would be easier but... > > * It would serialize users of the sledgehammer. > * It would block loading modules (which is often more important than > unloading them) when things go south.
My concern is that you're dropping the module mutex around ->exit now. I don't *think* this should matter, but it's worth considering. I really wonder if an explicit "kill_this_attribute()" is a better way to go than this... Rusty. - 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/