From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270982AbTG1AJC (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:09:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270978AbTG1AI2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:08:28 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:12581 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270982AbTG0X5b (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:57:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:12:42 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. Message-ID: <20030727201242.A29448@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List References: <20030727193919.832302C450@lists.samba.org> <20030727214701.A23137@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030727214701.A23137@devserv.devel.redhat.com>; from arjanv@redhat.com on Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:47:01PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com) said: > > The kudzu one and Alan's USB firmware example bother me more: they > > load then unload modules currently? > > I'm pretty sure kudzu doesn't It loads/unloads things like scsi modules and firewire controller modules, but only for hardware actually present in the system (i.e., you'd probably be loading it again anyway, if you haven't already loaded it.) Bill