From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765244AbYBNFCU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:02:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750716AbYBNFCK (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:02:10 -0500 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.187]:64790 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750717AbYBNFCI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:02:08 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m2XwYRE8v3UhPVcBArTUo83Ezx97lQz9MWcGHNjKbU6+yY2ALcNcfqUgrDfKMJHKUKWDij7j3MsdnYxe34yJw/S60MyYEjNhUGSYFBUHpOfirMrV4cJ6V5/08e8NjLJLLL8OcDAF6G552cWrI36MV+GhLVy4wmCcRNfG6/jwOV4= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:02:06 +0800 From: "Jike Song" To: "Max Krasnyansky" Subject: Re: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine" Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, "Andrew Morton" , LKML , "Linus Torvalds" In-Reply-To: <47ABC08C.8010101@qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47ABC08C.8010101@qualcomm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module loading/unloading > and the stop machine. I'm curious to know why it is called `stop machine', which is a queer name without any relationship with its function. Regards, Jike