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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:41:23 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> Subject: Re: kref refcounting breakage in mainline On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:54:14 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:19:20AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 01:06 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > That's good. But why don't we have a module name for this driver? > > > > > > And if we don't have a module name, why would there be a symlink to > > > remove? That's what is keeping your module from unloading, right? > > > > You keep saying "module", and that's making me a bit nervous ;-) > > > > Just to be sure we're not talking past each other, when you say module, > > don't mean the modprobe kind... i hope. This "module" as in driver is > > compiled in. (said that before, but you may have missed it) > > Ahh, that changes everything here, thanks for letting me know, I had > missed this. > > The problem is that the module_init() is failing, yet this isn't really > a module, it's built into the kernel. So some of the module teardown > logic is dieing when it thinks that we really have a full module > structure here (owner and such). Urgh, it's not a "loadable" module, but it's still a logical module. > I'll look at this further tomorrow, as I'm travelling pretty much all > day today, sorry. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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