Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:48:55 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER |
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David S. Miller wrote: > Module reference counting added complications to net device > handling, and once I killed it off we could begin addressing
Coding is tough, let's go shopping.
> all of the real bugs that exist with network devices. For example, > now that we're foreced to make net devices dynamic memory in all > cases we can deal with dangling procfs/sysfs references to the device > sanely. Fixing that was not possible with module refcounting.
rmmod is now completely pointless, and developers now have one less useful tool in their toolbox.
I code all the time doing "modprobe ; test ; rmmod", and that's now impossible.
Jeff
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