From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: 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: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:39:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307311939050.15919-100000@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030727193919.832302C450@lists.samba.org>
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> I guess it's back to fixing up reference counting in the rest of the
> kernel. It's not hard, it's just not done. 8(
Well, it's _never_ been done, so saying "we have to fix it for 2.6.x" is
obviously not true. It's one of those "nobody ends up really caring"
issues, since only root can unload anyway.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-01 2:40 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
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 [this message]
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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