Problem with g_unload_class()

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040326114343.GG8930 at darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wr
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>On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:34:08PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>+> >Anyway this will be a big change.
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>+> No it isn't.
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>Hmm, we can simulate such functionality, by doing only tests
>(can we remove this geom? Yes - block geom, return 0;
>No - unblock all geoms, return an error) in *_destroy_geom()
>function and do real removals in *_fini().

No, that is not what _fini is for.

The solution would be to give destroy_geom() and argument
which can be one of three values:
	TEST
	COMMIT
	ABANDON

This is classical CS theory, there is no need to reinvent
the hot water or the deep plate.

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