Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman writes: > >> Well the basic problem is that for any piece of code that can be modular >> we need a way to ensure all threads it has running are shutdown when we >> remove the module. > > The EEH code can't be modular, and wouldn't make any sense to be > modular, since it's part of the infrastructure for accessing PCI > devices.
Agreed. However most kthread users are modular and make sense to be so we need to design to handle modular users. I don't think the idiom of go fire off a thread to handle something is specific to non-modular users. Eric - 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/
