From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755636Ab3BLGhr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:37:47 -0500 Received: from fallback3.mail.ru ([94.100.176.58]:44779 "EHLO fallback3.mail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753260Ab3BLGhp (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:37:45 -0500 From: =?UTF-8?B?QWxleGFuZGVyIFNoaXlhbg==?= To: =?UTF-8?B?QXJuZCBCZXJnbWFubg==?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?RG9uZyBBaXNoZW5n?= , =?UTF-8?B?U2FtdWVsIE9ydGl6?= , =?UTF-8?B?TWFyayBCcm93bg==?= Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmVbMl06IFtQQVRDSCB2MiAxLzNdIG1mZDogc3lzY29uOiBSZW1vdmVkIHN1?= =?UTF-8?B?cHBvcnQgZm9yIHVubG9hZGluZw==?= Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mail.Ru Mailer 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [217.119.30.118] Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:35:35 +0400 Reply-To: =?UTF-8?B?QWxleGFuZGVyIFNoaXlhbg==?= X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1360650935.475602112@f368.mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Spam: Not detected X-Mras: Ok In-Reply-To: <201302112005.35034.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1360608173-12907-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> <201302112005.35034.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by mail.home.local id r1C6bpbb020630 Hello. > On Monday 11 February 2013, Alexander Shiyan wrote: > > The driver can be used in various subsystems and therefore should not > > be unloaded when it is defined in the kernel configuration, so remove > > support for unloading it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan > > Can you describe a scenario where that would happen? Normally the > module should stay pinned as long as any other module refers > to its exported symbols. Probably I wrote a bad description. The driver registered by "postcore_initcall". Therefore, if we unregister the driver, we have no way to register it back. Fixme please. --- {.n++%ݶw{.n+{G{ayʇڙ,jfhz_(階ݢj"mG?&~iOzv^m ?I