Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] back out sysfs reference count change | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:13:03 +1000 |
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> > I just had a loooong discussion with Rusty on that subject, it's > > indeed a nasty one. > > Ah, he sucks another person into the "module unload" discussion. My > sympathies :)
Nah, I started it, since he is about 2 meters from me in the office, that isn't difficult :)
> I agree, it's a difficult problem to solve, and something we aren't > going to do for 2.6. That's one reason why module unload is its own > config option :) > > Anyway, Rusty's proposal of "never unload, just mark not used" and then > load a new copy into memory that he did during the OLS timeframe last > year sounds like the only sane way to get this completely correct, with > the trade off of never releasing memory.
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