From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:29:48 +0000 Subject: Re: Device count (to be done with) 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 Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2001 07:37 schrieben Sie: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:03:23PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > > I am still not convinced that you need a separate count field, if > > _either_ count is non-zero then the module will not be unloaded. A > > single count is all that is required. > > I agree, I think the current module count is just fine. > > Again, what is the problem that you are trying to solve here? > The fact that when a device is removed, the driver is unloaded? > Is that a good goal? And if so, why? And why can't the current counter > be used for just that reason? Because it would prevent you from unloading modules that could perfectly well be unloaded, just like other modules can be. Some drivers are quite large, eg pwc. Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ 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