Re: Module Refcount & Stuff mini-FAQ

[Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> Ah, see other thread

Argh, there are only about a hundred threads on modules ;-)

> (weren't you at the kernel summit?).

Yes, but I hadn't paid much attention to modules before, so I only
understood about half of what you said, sorry. It was interesting
to learn that there were actually so many problems, though :-)

> There's currently no way to abort if you've exposed interfaces and then
> something fails ("don't do that" is great except noone knows that, and
> it's not always possible or nice)

Hmm, if "expose interface" == "publish symbol", why can't you simply
defer publishing until after initialization completes ? If "expose
interface" == "register something somewhere", then this has to be
undone anyway. Or am I overlooking something here ?

Thanks,
- Werner

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