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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:35:55 +0000
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: module unload deadlock
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:29:21PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > the actual module doing request_modules in the cleanup handler is
> > parport_pc, calling parport_enumerate (it calls it for another reason,
> > and parport enumerate is told to load up a lowlevel driver if none was
> > present, that's worthless for the unload routine but it's useful for all
> > other calls of parport_enumerate). It's uncertain if other drivers

Bullshit.  Other calls of parport_enumerate() must die - along with that one.
Patches will go to akpm tomorrow.