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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: schlicht@uni-mannheim.de, ricardo.b@zmail.pt,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:48:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F170BB7.5030806@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030717131902.76c68c56.davem@redhat.com>

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




  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-17 20:34 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 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Jeff Garzik
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             ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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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