From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: some 2.5.66 issues
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:35:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E84CE29.8070806@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1048893853.1314.8.camel@localhost.localdomain
Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Now, something more problematic. I'm being told to use try_module_get()
> instead of MOD_INC_USE_COUNT. Cool. Somehow, it returns 1. I had a look
> at the code in linux/module.h and am a bit confused:
> Why does it only return 0 if the module is not alive? This sounds...
> er... weird? Can someone please enlighten me?
Presumably so you can treat the result as a boolean true/false value.
Chris
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2003-03-28 23:24 some 2.5.66 issues Ronald Bultje
2003-03-28 22:35 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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2003-03-28 22:50 mikpe
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