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From: Holger Eitzenberger <heitzenberger@astaro.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] clean up nf_log API
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:54:54 +0200
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Harald Welte wrote:

> b) reference counting.  We could actually get_module / put_module the
>    module that implements a specific backend rather than using our own
>    use counter.

Yes, I saw this during nfnetlink_log evaluation.  It is kind of 
confusing if the module refcount stays zero all the time.

/holger


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