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From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Nicolas Noble <Pixel@the-babel-tower.nobis.phear.org>
Cc: "Linux-kernel's Mailing list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Little question about modules...
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 03:36:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010107033611.B2127@khan.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101140318240.5780-100000@the-babel-tower.nobis.phear.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101140318240.5780-100000@the-babel-tower.nobis.phear.org>; from Pixel@the-babel-tower.nobis.phear.org on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:20:52AM +0100

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:20:52AM +0100, Nicolas Noble wrote:
> 
> Just a question:
> 
> Why do I have used by -1 for the module ipv6 onto my system?
> 
> extract of the /proc/modules:
> 
> ip6table_filter         1988   0 (unused)
> ip6t_mark                688   0 (unused)
> ip6t_limit              1016   0 (unused)
> ip6_tables             13044   3 [ip6table_filter ip6t_mark ip6t_limit]
> ipv6                  117992  -1

To make sure ipv6 can't get unloaded. If I remember correctly, the
ipv6 code will oops nicely if unloaded.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-07  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-14  2:20 Nicolas Noble
2001-01-07  2:36 ` David Weinehall [this message]
2001-01-07  9:58 ` Russell King
2001-01-07 11:51   ` Keith Owens
2001-01-07 12:11     ` David Ford

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