Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270735AbTG0K6N (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:58:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270737AbTG0K6N (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:58:13 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:49283 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270735AbTG0K6M (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:58:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , Rusty Russell , Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030726193743.B20667@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20030726172139.348342C24B@lists.samba.org> <20030726193743.B20667@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1059304166.12759.14.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 27 Jul 2003 12:09:26 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 16 On Sad, 2003-07-26 at 20:37, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > 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. > > yes but those same installers couldn't care less if the kernel > completely frees the memory of the module text or if it leaks that. > It won't even notice the difference.... On a 64Mb box the Red Hat installer would crash in this situation if you do the maths - 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/