From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
arjanv@redhat.com, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:37:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030726193743.B20667@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307261230110.1841-100000@home.osdl.org>; from torvalds@osdl.org on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:31:25PM -0700
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:31:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> First off - we're not changing fundamental module stuff any more.
fair enough
>
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > No, it would just leak memory. Not really a concern for developers.
> > It's fairly trivial to hack up a backdoor "remove all freed modules
> > and be damned" thing for developers if there's real demand.
>
> 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....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-26 19:22 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 [this message]
2003-07-27 5:38 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-27 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:09 ` Alan Cox
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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