Re: request_module while holding rtnl semaphore

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Graf wrote:

> * Patrick McHardy <41916F0B.5010809@xxxxxxxxx> 2004-11-10 02:29
>  
>
> > Assuming all error-paths do proper cleanup, returning -EAGAIN
> > should always result in the same configuration state as before.
> >    
>
> I agree but this assumption is wrong, at least for u32.
It will be true soon :) Anything else is a bug, and a nice
side-effect of this change is that all those dusty error-paths
actually get used.

> I agree
> that once this is true it would work perfectly fine, however I 
> think it would be inefficient to parse the whole TLV tree multiple
> times.
>  
It will only happen once for every module, so I don't think
it's a big deal.

Regards
Patrick