Subject: Re: VFS LKMs & pool_init() panic
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/11/2000 13:31:13
> The problem here is that a LKM is unloaded, it doesn't have a chance
> to free it's [sic] resources.
> Solutions would be to add a new VFS routine, [...]
What about LKMs that aren't filesystems? Won't we have exactly the
same problem with them as soon as one of them has something global that
needs freeing on unload?
IOW, shouldn't this be "a new LKM routine" rather than "a new VFS
routine"?
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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