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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com ("Richard B. Johnson")
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        Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Subject: Re: Module open() problems, Linux 2.4.0
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001109150621.15404A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> you wrote:
> This may be, as you say, "harmless". It is, however, a bug. The
> reporting must be correct or large complex systems can't be
> developed or maintained.

No.  It is not.  The module usage count doesn't have a direct relation
to the number of open devices.  The module count just makes the modules
un-removable if it is non-zero.  It doesn't matter at all, when and where
you in- and decrease it, as long as the module is always protected against
unload when in use (e.g. opened).

	Christoph

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