From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270729AbTG0K7J (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:59:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270731AbTG0K7I (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:59:08 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:51075 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270729AbTG0K7E (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:59:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. From: Alan Cox To: Aschwin Marsman Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Rusty Russell , Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1059304217.12759.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 27 Jul 2003 12:10:18 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 06:38, Aschwin Marsman wrote: > But doesn't the same happen when e.g. kudzu tries to detect new hardware? > This is running every time my RH system boots, so memory leaks at that > moment do not appeal to me. When it's only an installer thing, it doesn't > worry me, although from an engineering perspective... Yes - and also every time you trigger some of the USB firmware loading modules and the like you'd lose 200K or so