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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
       Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: [OKS] Module removal
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On Monday 08 July 2002 02:46, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > I think you have to do it with the use count, and there may well be
> > modules you can't remove safely.
> 
> I agree, this is the correct and clean thing to do.
> 
> It rather implies that any function in a module which calls
> MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT should always be called from a non-module
> function which _itself_ protects the module from removal by temporarily
> bumping the use count.

That's not nice.  It requires the calling code to know it's calling a
module and it imposes the inc/dec overhead on callers even when the
target isn't compiled as a module.

-- 
Daniel
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