Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:06:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:06:47 -0400 Received: from 12-231-242-11.client.attbi.com ([12.231.242.11]:6154 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:06:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:11:40 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: Roman Zippel , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] In-kernel module loader 1/7 Message-ID: <20020919201140.GB17131@kroah.com> References: <20020919125906.21DEA2C22A@lists.samba.org> <20020919183843.GA16568@kroah.com> <1032461895.27865.54.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1032461895.27865.54.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 21 On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:58:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 19:38, Greg KH wrote: > > And with a LSM module, how can it answer that? There's no way, unless > > we count every time someone calls into our module. And if you do that, > > no one will even want to use your module, given the number of hooks, and > > the paths those hooks are on (the speed hit would be horrible.) > > So the LSM module always says no. Don't make other modules suffer Ok, I don't have a problem with that, I was just trying to point out that not all modules can know when they are able to be unloaded, as Roman stated. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/