Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932605AbWCIDoj (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:44:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751527AbWCIDoj (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:44:39 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:11994 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751274AbWCIDoj (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:44:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 03:44:35 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Dave Peterson Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code Message-ID: <20060309034435.GQ27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <200601190414.k0J4EZCV021775@hera.kernel.org> <200603061301.37923.dsp@llnl.gov> <1141679261.5568.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200603081919.59763.dsp@llnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603081919.59763.dsp@llnl.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 16 On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:19:59PM -0800, Dave Peterson wrote: > I'm not familiar with the internals of the module unloading code. > However, my understanding of the discussion so far is that the kernel > will refuse to unload a module while any of its kobjects still have > nonzero reference counts (either by waiting for the reference counts > to hit 0 or returning -EBUSY). > > If this is the case, ... the world you are living in is drastically different from the one where the rest of us lives. - 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/