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On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:45, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Well, that's just the good old broken module API problem again. > Under the premise that modules can't be fixed, but the world > around them can, try_module_get is an adequate band-aid for > this API bug, but I wouldn't apply Kant's formula of universal > law quite so literally here :-) Netdevices NO LONGER use module refcounts in any way shape or form. They are not needed to fix problems of this nature. They way to fix it is to always dynamically allocate your netdevice objects, and mark them dead. The final kfree() of the object can be deferred until the final reference goes away, and that could be 10 years from now, it doesn't matter and the module can be unloaded NOW and without any delay. -- David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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