[dm-devel] Re: [git pull] device-mapper patches for 2.6.29

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:32:51AM +0800, Cheng Renquan (程任全) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:15:58AM +0800, Cheng Renquan (程任全) wrote:
> >> So now maybe we can add a null macro to module_refcount if
> >> CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD undefined?
> > Do we even need the test at all?
 
> So you mean add "#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD ..." to dm-target.c? I
> can do that, but I really don't know a better solution without
> conditional compiling?
 
I mean under what set of circumstances could the test of the module refcount
here fail, and if the test was simply removed are there any cases where that
would matter?

Alasdair
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