From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
stern@rowland.harvard.edu, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
viro@math.psu.edu,
Linux-USB <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] back out sysfs reference count change
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:13:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080803583.1722.66.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401065534.GD11655@kroah.com>
> > I just had a loooong discussion with Rusty on that subject, it's
> > indeed a nasty one.
>
> Ah, he sucks another person into the "module unload" discussion. My
> sympathies :)
Nah, I started it, since he is about 2 meters from me in the
office, that isn't difficult :)
> I agree, it's a difficult problem to solve, and something we aren't
> going to do for 2.6. That's one reason why module unload is its own
> config option :)
>
> Anyway, Rusty's proposal of "never unload, just mark not used" and then
> load a new copy into memory that he did during the OLS timeframe last
> year sounds like the only sane way to get this completely correct, with
> the trade off of never releasing memory.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20040328123857.55f04527.akpm@osdl.org>
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2004-03-29 23:16 ` Unregistering interfaces Greg KH
2004-03-29 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-30 0:01 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 7:38 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-30 15:38 ` Alan Stern
2004-03-30 5:51 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-30 23:01 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-30 23:30 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:57 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:56 ` Alan Stern
2004-03-31 0:08 ` David Brownell
2004-03-31 0:34 ` Greg KH
2004-03-31 15:32 ` Alan Stern
2004-03-31 0:33 ` Greg KH
2004-03-31 15:54 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-01 7:24 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:55 ` [PATCH] back out sysfs reference count change Greg KH
2004-03-31 2:11 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-31 2:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-31 9:26 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-31 15:11 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-01 5:17 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-01 7:15 ` Greg KH
2004-04-01 14:56 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-02 4:38 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-02 21:41 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-06 10:13 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-06 17:03 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-14 13:20 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-15 21:36 ` Greg KH
2004-04-15 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-16 8:42 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-31 22:18 ` Greg KH
2004-04-01 1:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-01 3:48 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-01 6:55 ` Greg KH
2004-04-01 7:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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