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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:55:30 -0800 (PST)
From: "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" <kernel@blackhole.compendium-tech.com>
To: Boris Dragovic <lynx@falcon.etf.bg.ac.yu>
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Subject: Re: negative mod use count
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Boris Dragovic wrote:
> what does negative module use count mean?

That means that there's a bug in someone's driver.
For some reason, the function to decrement the module use is called more
than once when a controlling process releases use of a module. 

This will prevent you from being able to 'rmmod' or 'modprobe -r' it; a
"Device or resource busy" error or similar will result IIRC. 

Submit a bug to the driver maintainer.

 Kelsey Hudson                                           khudson@ctica.com 
 Software Engineer
 Compendium Technologies, Inc                               (619) 725-0771
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