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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:25:49 +1100 (EST)
From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: Module Ref Counting & ibmphp
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@osdl.org
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--- Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> [...] 
> No.  I don't think this driver likes to be unloaded
> due to the
> instability of the hardware if that happens.  So
> let's just let it not
> be unloaded, and hope that the hardware can die in
> peace and never get
> put into any new machines...

Fair enough & thanks for the explanation.

I've quickly tested Stephen's patch, which does the
trick (no more 4.3 billion usages :)).

Note to Stephen: Pls don't remove people in the cc
list. I almost missed your patch & hence my testing of
it.

Thanks


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