Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:32:33 -0400
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, davem@redhat.com, arjanv@redhat.com,
       torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:26:51PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> There are two possible objections to this:
>  * Some developers keep the same kernel running and load/unload then reload
>    a new driver when debugging. This would break probably or at least cause
>    a large amount of kernel growth. Not that big an issue for me personally
>    but driver writers seem to get hit with all the changes.

As a driver writer, I don't mind this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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