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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	davem@redhat.com, arjanv@redhat.com, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:32:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030725193233.GA3627@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030725122651.4aedc768.shemminger@osdl.org>

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:26:51PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> There are two possible objections to this:
>  * Some developers keep the same kernel running and load/unload then reload
>    a new driver when debugging. This would break probably or at least cause
>    a large amount of kernel growth. Not that big an issue for me personally
>    but driver writers seem to get hit with all the changes.

As a driver writer, I don't mind this.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-25 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-24 18:00 [PATCH] Remove module reference counting Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-27 18:50   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:11   ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-07-25 19:32   ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-25 22:26   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-26 19:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-26 19:37       ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-27  5:38         ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-27 11:10           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:09         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 19:34       ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-27 21:47         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-28  0:01           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28  0:12           ` Bill Nottingham
2003-07-28 11:38             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 20:33               ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-30  1:55                 ` Greg KH
2003-07-30 14:40                 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:40         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 18:11         ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-28 19:03           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-01  2:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-25 23:24   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 18:48     ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 22:43 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-25 23:37   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26 20:18   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-28 11:51 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-28 23:13   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-29  2:39     ` Rahul Karnik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-29  2:10 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky

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