Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262451AbUDAHN6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:13:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262471AbUDAHN6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:13:58 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:64156 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262451AbUDAHNy (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:13:54 -0500 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] back out sysfs reference count change From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Maneesh Soni , Andrew Morton , stern@rowland.harvard.edu, David Brownell , viro@math.psu.edu, Linux-USB , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <20040401065534.GD11655@kroah.com> References: <20040329210219.GA16735@kroah.com> <20040329132551.23e12144.akpm@osdl.org> <20040329231604.GA29494@kroah.com> <20040329153117.558c3263.akpm@osdl.org> <20040330055135.GA8448@in.ibm.com> <20040330230142.GA13571@kroah.com> <20040330235533.GA9018@kroah.com> <1080699090.1198.117.camel@gaston> <20040331221804.GA4729@kroah.com> <1080784568.1435.37.camel@gaston> <20040401065534.GD11655@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080803583.1722.66.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:13:03 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 26 > > I just had a loooong discussion with Rusty on that subject, it's > > indeed a nasty one. > > Ah, he sucks another person into the "module unload" discussion. My > sympathies :) Nah, I started it, since he is about 2 meters from me in the office, that isn't difficult :) > I agree, it's a difficult problem to solve, and something we aren't > going to do for 2.6. That's one reason why module unload is its own > config option :) > > Anyway, Rusty's proposal of "never unload, just mark not used" and then > load a new copy into memory that he did during the OLS timeframe last > year sounds like the only sane way to get this completely correct, with > the trade off of never releasing memory. - 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/