From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stamatis Mitrofanis Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:06:01 +0000 Subject: Device count (to be done with) Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I think it should be pretty obvious by now that we need a separate count for devices. To clarify things, the two counts are: 1. The classical "use" count, which (together with other things) counts "reasons that this module MUST remain loaded". 2. The new "convenience" count which counts "reasons that this module SHOULD remain loaded". The "should" count should be mostly managed from userspace (but also give the option for modules to change it) and user space programs must not care about anything beyond modprobe. For uniformity, better put this "should" count right next to the "must" (use) count. _______________________________________________ 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