netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to classes

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:20:47 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned
 to  classes

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 11:13 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> That would block the rmmod process until the resources are cleaned up,
> wouldn't it?

Yes, would that be so bad?

> The network devices can do this because the cleanup code is always
> compiled-in, for a module cleaning up itself, this is kind of
> complicated, isn't it?

It just needs a wait_for_bus_exit() function that the module calls in
_exit?

johannes

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