[PATCH 2/2] nvme: keyring: fix conditional compilation

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 10/27/23 10:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:54:42AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>> I don't really mind the link order, for these cases I usually add a
>>> comment to the Makefile so that people don't accidentally change it.
>>
>> Point is not that it has to be initialized first, point is it has to be
>> initialized only _once_.
> 
> module_init ensure it is only initialized once except for the case where
> the module is unloaded and reloaded, in which case you actually do need
> to initialize it again.
> 
So if I do this:

obj-$(CONFIG_MOD1)	+= mod1.o mod-common.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MOD2)	+= mod2.o mod-common.o

and mod-common contains a 'module_init()' and a 'module_exit()' 
function, what happens if I load mod2 after mod1?
And what happens if I unload mod2, but keep mod1?

Cheers,

Hannes