Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271540AbTGQVJS (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271543AbTGQVJS (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:09:18 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:4268 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271532AbTGQVJH (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:09:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1713E5.6020206@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:23:49 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Fedyk CC: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> <3F170D0F.7070304@pobox.com> <20030717211623.GA2289@matchmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20030717211623.GA2289@matchmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 28 Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:54:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Another one: >> >>rmmod on net drivers no longer produces the behavior that's existed >>since modules were first added to the kernel. > > > And that new behaviour is? No reference counts reported to module subsystem at all, so, you can rmmod a module at any time, even if the interface is up and running. Even though net devices are independently refcounted and internally consistent, I have no idea if the module's code is refcounted elsewhere or not. So, I hope it's safe... Jeff - 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/