Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:05:28 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends |
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > If you don't hold a reference, then yes, the module can go away. This > hasn't been a huge problem for users in the past.
There's a single users, and it has these problems.
> The lack of users is because, firstly, dynamic dependencies are less > common than static ones, and secondly because the remaining inter-module > users (AGP and mtd) have not been converted.
AGP doesn't use dynamic symbols anymore, only mtd is gone. And I'd rather see it not switching to symbol_get.
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