From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 04:29:11 +0000 Subject: Re: Unloading drivers, start-up, shut-down and a rewrite (a problem) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 04:14:08 +0100, Stamatis Mitrofanis 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel