From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
Date: 27 Jul 2003 12:09:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1059304166.12759.14.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030726193743.B20667@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Sad, 2003-07-26 at 20:37, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > It's not just a developer thing. At least installers etc used to do some
> > device probing by loading modules and depending on the result.
>
> yes but those same installers couldn't care less if the kernel
> completely frees the memory of the module text or if it leaks that.
> It won't even notice the difference....
On a 64Mb box the Red Hat installer would crash in this situation if you
do the maths
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-27 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-24 18:00 [PATCH] Remove module reference counting Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-27 18:50 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:11 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-07-25 19:32 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 22:26 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-26 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-26 19:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-27 5:38 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-27 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-27 19:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-27 21:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-28 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 0:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-07-28 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 20:33 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-30 1:55 ` Greg KH
2003-07-30 14:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 18:11 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-28 19:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-01 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-25 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 18:48 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 22:43 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-25 23:37 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26 20:18 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-28 11:51 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-28 23:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-29 2:39 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-29 2:10 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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