Re: [PATCH] module_arch_cleanup()

David Mosberger (davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 8 May 2003 13:43:30 -0700


>>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2003 18:41:17 +0200, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> said:

Christoph> IA64 needs to be able to hook into module unloading to get rid of
Christoph> the unwind tables for modules. (The actual implementation already
Christoph> is in arch/ia64/kernel/module.c, David just seems to be to shy to
Christoph> submit core changes :))

Actually, I did submit it, even though it's Rusty's code. See:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=20030409220021%242cec%40gated-at.bofh.it

Rusty wanted module_arch_cleanup() to be an unconditional thing.
Perhaps Linus disagreed and dropped it because of that. I don't
really care. Just make it work. ;-)

--david
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