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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:11:40 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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
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