On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:56:12PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > mddev holds module reference and till the gendisk is gone mddev won't > be gone, so as long as gendisk is around the respective mddev and > md.ko are around. It doesn't and it *could* *not* - you can't drop the final reference to module from within that module, period. > I don't think it's necessary to allow modules to unload while devices > are hot. gendisk may stay referenced past the point when everything got closed and unregistered. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
