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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: ricardo.b@zmail.pt
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:32:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F16C190.3080205@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058446580.18647.11.camel@ezquiel.nara.homeip.net>

Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
> Hi all,
>   most net device drivers have replaced MOD_INC/DEC_USE_COUNT with
> SET_MODULE_OWNER but SET_MODULE_OWNER doesn't do nothing.
>   Therefore, those modules (though I can only vouch for 8139too) always
> report 0 use. Some people that had "modprobe -r" in their cronttab found
> it quite annoying.
>   I'd guess that there's a good reason for why struct net_device doesn't
> have .owner field and why this happens. Can someone be so kind to point
> it
> out? 


struct net_device does have an owner field, and SET_MODULE_OWNER 
obviously _does_ do something.

If your interface is up, your net driver's module refcount is greater 
than zero.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-17 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17 12:56 SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-17 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-07-17 15:56   ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-17 16:00     ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 19:59       ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-17 20:22         ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 20:19           ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-17 20:48             ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 21:34               ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-18  9:48             ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Roman Zippel
2003-07-18  7:31           ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Duncan Sands
2003-07-18  9:05             ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Martin Diehl
2003-07-18 10:12               ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Duncan Sands
2003-07-18 12:46                 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Martin Diehl
2003-07-17 21:36         ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-17 21:40           ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-17 22:23             ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-17 22:16               ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-18  0:49                 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-18  2:27             ` SET_MODULE_OWNER James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-07-18  5:26               ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-20  2:10                 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER James H. Cloos Jr.

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