Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759006AbXI1FiK (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:38:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755823AbXI1Fh5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:37:57 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:1082 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755491AbXI1Fh4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:37:56 -0400 From: Herbert Xu To: jbeulich@novell.com (Jan Beulich) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Organization: Core In-Reply-To: <46FBE2DD.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.17-rc4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:37:39 +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 20 Jan Beulich wrote: > > So we have an unsolvable problem here then, unless infrastructure gets added > that allows a module to declare itself as not-implicit-unload-safe, forcing > modprobe -r to keep its hands off it. Ugly. Yes I've always wanted to have a separate count that indicates a module is in use but does not prevent its immediate removal. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/