Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267491AbTGZTQY (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:16:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267561AbTGZTQY (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:16:24 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:55478 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267491AbTGZTQX (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:16:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:31:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Rusty Russell cc: Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. In-Reply-To: <20030726172139.348342C24B@lists.samba.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 19 First off - we're not changing fundamental module stuff any more. On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Rusty Russell wrote: > > No, it would just leak memory. Not really a concern for developers. > It's fairly trivial to hack up a backdoor "remove all freed modules > and be damned" thing for developers if there's real demand. It's not just a developer thing. At least installers etc used to do some device probing by loading modules and depending on the result. Linus - 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/