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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unloading drivers, start-up, shut-down and a rewrite (a problem)
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 04:29:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100216983120630@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100216891319132@msgid-missing>

On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 04:14:08 +0100, 
Stamatis Mitrofanis <ewstam@softhome.net> wrote:
>Of course, because, besides making scripts and framework pretty, I'm 
>also implementing the ability to unload modules, I needed to have a 
>method to play with the modules' reference counts(which is the only 
>thing still missing from my rewrite).

More details please.  Why do you need to externally adjust a module's
use count?  All other modules handle their use counts internally, what
is different about hotplug?

>And since you pointed me to the 
>right way, I'll try to add it and post a patch when it's ready. I didn't 
>really know about that because I'm not very into the kernel's internals. 

I will do the patch to kernel/module.c, once I understand exactly what
the requirements are.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-04  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-04  3:14 Unloading drivers, start-up, shut-down and a rewrite (a problem) Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-04  4:29 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-10-05  0:03 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-05  5:58 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-05  6:25 ` David Hinds
2001-10-05  7:13 ` David Brownell
2001-10-05  7:21 ` David Brownell
2001-10-05  7:28 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-05  8:16 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-05  8:53 ` David Brownell
2001-10-05 15:26 ` David Hinds

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