From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
adaplas@pol.net,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:05:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050113170528.GA24590@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105575573.12794.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> If you don't hold a reference, then yes, the module can go away. This
> hasn't been a huge problem for users in the past.
There's a single users, and it has these problems.
> The lack of users is because, firstly, dynamic dependencies are less
> common than static ones, and secondly because the remaining inter-module
> users (AGP and mtd) have not been converted.
AGP doesn't use dynamic symbols anymore, only mtd is gone. And I'd
rather see it not switching to symbol_get.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-13 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-12 20:31 [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-13 0:19 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-13 0:59 ` Dave Airlie
2005-01-13 2:25 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-13 8:42 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-13 4:18 ` Dave Jones
2005-01-13 8:45 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-13 17:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-01-14 6:56 ` Rusty Russell
2005-01-16 20:46 ` Richard Purdie
2005-01-17 2:47 ` Rusty Russell
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