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authorMike Isely <isely@pobox.com>2008-04-07 02:22:04 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2008-04-24 14:09:48 -0300
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tree4223cab8016088a06d0423e1e41eacb646867c46 /Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt
parentd913d6303072ca194919d851e6743ad8c3a7563d (diff)
V4L/DVB (7711): pvrusb2: Fix race on module unload
The pvrusb2 driver - for basically forever - was not enforcing a proper module tear-down. Kernel threads are used inside the driver and all must be gone before the module can be safely removed. This changeset reimplements a chunk of pvrusb2-context.c to enforce this correctly. Unfortunately this is not a simple fix. The new implementation also cuts back on kernel thread usage; instead of there being 1 control thread per instance now it's just 1 control thread shared by all instances. (By dropping to a single thread then the module exit function can block on its shutdown and the thread itself can monitor and cleanly shut down all of the other instances first.) Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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