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From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Module Ref Counting & ibmphp
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:25:49 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060315032549.83543.qmail@web52605.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060315000212.GB6533@kroah.com>

--- 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 :)).

Note to Stephen: Pls don't remove people in the cc
list. I almost missed your patch & hence my testing of
it.

Thanks



		
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-15  3:25 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   ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan [this message]
2006-03-15  3:36     ` Module Ref Counting & ibmphp Randy.Dunlap

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