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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:40:28 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PART1: Proposed init & module changes for 2.5
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:54:09 +1000
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
>   rmmod
>     loses race
>     return OK
>     module is still in use, user is confused

Ah, I see... no, it's currently:

   rmmod
      loses race
      waits for module count to hit zero

This can be desirable behavior (rmmod -f).  It's not good if you wanted
auto-module-unloading, but then, we've never wanted to take the hit to have
a pagable kernel, and I don't think we should do so.

Cheers,
Rusty.