linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed

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Message-ID: <20070928111107.57519b67@freepuppy.rosehill>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:11:07 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	jbeulich@...ell.com (Jan Beulich),
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are
 created/destroyed

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:37:39 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com> wrote:
> >
> > So we have an unsolvable problem here then, unless infrastructure gets added
> > that allows a module to declare itself as not-implicit-unload-safe, forcing
> > modprobe -r to keep its hands off it. Ugly.
> 
> Yes I've always wanted to have a separate count that indicates
> a module is in use but does not prevent its immediate removal.
> 
> Cheers,

It is only the nested removal problem.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
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