From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com (Jan Beulich),
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:11:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928111107.57519b67@freepuppy.rosehill> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ib8Xj-0006Kl-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:37:39 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.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@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 7:53 Jan Beulich
2007-09-26 15:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-26 21:06 ` why network devices don't do reference counting? (Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed) Oleg Verych
2007-09-26 21:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-26 22:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-26 22:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-26 22:57 ` why network devices don't do reference counting? David Miller
2007-09-27 11:54 ` why network devices don't do reference counting? (Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed) Helge Hafting
2007-09-27 14:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-27 14:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-27 19:15 ` why network devices don't do reference counting? David Miller
2007-09-27 19:01 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <46FAA013.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
[not found] ` <20070926101252.3ccbb987@freepuppy.rosehill>
2007-09-27 7:40 ` [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed Jan Beulich
2007-09-27 14:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-27 15:05 ` Jan Beulich
2007-09-28 5:37 ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-28 18:11 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-09-29 0:55 ` Herbert Xu
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