From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device count (to be done with)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 05:59:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100321203031409@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100274805227939@msgid-missing>
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:37:32 -0700,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>Right now there is a history of only incrementing the module usage
>count when a userspace program opens a file through the driver.
<nitpick>
The module use count has *NEVER* been defined as an open count, it is a
reference count that sometimes is the same as the count of open files.
Too many developers have made the mistake of assuming that use count =
open count. For some modules the use count reflects the number of data
packets, others count the number of device commands in flight, others
just set the count to 1 and maintain their own data structures, only
setting the use count to 0 when all their data structures are free.
</nitpick>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-16 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 20:06 Device count (to be done with) Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-11 15:01 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-12 22:53 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-13 8:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-15 0:15 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-15 9:39 ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-10-15 22:27 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-16 4:03 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 5:37 ` Greg KH
2001-10-16 5:59 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-10-16 7:02 ` David Brownell
2001-10-16 8:23 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-16 8:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-16 8:47 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 12:00 ` Oliver Neukum
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