From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Module Ref Counting & ibmphp
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:36:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060314193629.7deccc83.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060315032549.83543.qmail@web52605.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:25:49 +1100 (EST) Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
> --- Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > No. I don't think this driver likes to be unloaded
> > due to the
> > instability of the hardware if that happens. So
> > let's just let it not
> > be unloaded, and hope that the hardware can die in
> > peace and never get
> > put into any new machines...
>
> Fair enough & thanks for the explanation.
>
> I've quickly tested Stephen's patch, which does the
> trick (no more 4.3 billion usages :)).
That was ~0 (0xffffffff, -1) for those who missed it.
> Note to Stephen: Pls don't remove people in the cc
> list. I almost missed your patch & hence my testing of
> it.
---
~Randy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-15 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-14 22:47 Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2006-03-15 0:02 ` Greg KH
2006-03-15 0:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-03-15 17:16 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-03-17 20:20 ` [2.6 patch] disallow unloading of ibmphp Adrian Bunk
2006-03-17 20:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-15 3:25 ` Module Ref Counting & ibmphp Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2006-03-15 3:36 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
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