On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 14:59 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: > >> But does this bump up the module refcount in such a way that an > >> in-progress rmmod will wait/block until the refcount reaches 0? > > > > It should, yes, but you race once you do module_put(), no? > > It's still racy, I agree. > > I don't see how device_release_driver() can be made work synchronously > at all. It should, however, be perfectly fine if this was an async > request to release a device/driver, right? Yeah, but the work struct would have to live somewhere that can't be unloaded, or can more safely wait for it... I guess we could also have a list of these in the modules and synchronize on them in module_exit()? johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
