Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit

[Richard Gooch]

Alexander Viro writes:
> Call them well-behaving modules if you wish.  For these the answers
> are "yes"/"a lot of things can be"/"it's easy to handle".  What's
> left?  The pieces of code with really complex interfaces.  And guess
> what, race-prevention is complex for these guys - and it's not just
> about rmmod races.  E.g. parts of procfs, sysctls and devfs are
> still quite racy even if you compile everything into the tree and
> remove all module-related syscalls completely.

Can you point to specific problems with the current devfs code?

				Regards,

					Richard....
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