Fix for crash on eject after module removal

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sun Apr 27 07:49:06 BST 2003


On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:38:05PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> What I don't quite like is that setting the module owner is voluntary and
> cannot be enforced except by obsoleting register_pccard_driver().  

register_pccard_driver() has been obsoleted.  I finally got jgarzik to
take my patch to converted all net drivers and hopefully it will be
gone by the end of next week.

> Ideally, the module should be found by the address without any cooperation
> from the client driver, but I guess __find_symbol() in kernel/module.c
> begins with two underscores for a reason.

Yes, it's ugly as hell.




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