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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	<bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: why network devices don't do reference counting? (Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:06:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Iae5t-0007Sk-Vu@flower> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926083705.6bc65ea5@fujitsu-loaner>

* Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:37:05 -0700
* Organization: Linux Foundation
>
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:53:27 +0100
> "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>
>> Otherwise 'modprobe -r' on a module having a dependency on bridge will
>> implicitly unload bridge, bringing down all connectivity that was
>> using bridges.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>>
>
> No, network devices don't do reference counting.

Could you explain why, please?

After `udevd` on boot loads lots of unused crap, i surrendered, and use
$(rmmod `lsmod | just first column`). Networing bravely wipes away. OK,
there are lots of configs: udev, hotplug, modprobe, that somebody might
like to fix. But it came to the end with me. I just don't care. So,
please answer :)
____

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26  7:53 [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed Jan Beulich
2007-09-26 15:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-26 21:06   ` Oleg Verych [this message]
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) 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
2007-09-29  0:55                 ` Herbert Xu

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