Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270649AbTHACkM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:40:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270650AbTHACkM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:40:12 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:26250 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270649AbTHACkJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:40:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:39:58 -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: <20030727193919.832302C450@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: 608 Lines: 17 On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I guess it's back to fixing up reference counting in the rest of the > kernel. It's not hard, it's just not done. 8( Well, it's _never_ been done, so saying "we have to fix it for 2.6.x" is obviously not true. It's one of those "nobody ends up really caring" issues, since only root can unload anyway. 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/