On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > Peter Chen <peter.c...@freescale.com> writes: >> Currently, if module's refcount is not zero during the unload, >> it waits there until the user decreases that refcount. > > Hi Peter, > > In practice userspace uses O_NONBLOCK. In fact, I've been > thinking of removing the blocking case altogether, since it's not really > what people want. > > That would solve your problem and make the code simpler. Thoughts?
I'm all in favor of this. It's been almost 1 year it's deprecated in kmod and if anyone tries to use we force a 10s delay on module removal. So far nobody complained. Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
