On Sun 2019-12-29 18:18:11, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit cbb79863fc3175ed5ac506465948b02a893a8235 ] > > If something has the IPMI driver open, don't allow the device > module to be unloaded. Before it would unload and the user would > get errors on use. > > This change is made on user request, and it makes it consistent > with the I2C driver, which has the same behavior. > > It does change things a little bit with respect to kernel users. > If the ACPI or IPMI watchdog (or any other kernel user) has > created a user, then the device module cannot be unloaded. Before > it could be unloaded, > > This does not affect hot-plug. If the device goes away (it's on > something removable that is removed or is hot-removed via sysfs) > then it still behaves as it did before. I don't think this is good idea for stable. First, it includes unrelated function rename, and second, it does not really fix any bug; it just changes behaviour. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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