> This patch should allow the disk partition handlers to be
> compiled as loadable modules. The patch also has the side effect
> of simplifying fs/partitions/Makefile. At this point, I can
What stops me unloading one of the partition drivers in your patch while
the partition scan is stalled waiting for a disk block, and the box then
crashing ?
Similarly its not proofed against two parallel insmods in theory (SMP)
although I think the kernel lock covers it
> +cleanup_module(void)
> +{
How about taking a semaphore here, when registering and also
before doing the scan
> + unregister_partition_ops(&ops);
That should make everything stall until the partition scanner has finished
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