From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module use count & unloading
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:37:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031218163756.GA20882@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031218150525.5504D12001E@sarkovy.koeller.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:03:11PM +0100, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just learned that it is expected behavior for a module
> to be in use while having an in-use count of zero, see
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693. If this is
> so, how am I supposed to know whether a module can safely
> be unloaded? It also seems the old 'autoclean / modprobe -k'
> functionality from 2.4 is no longer available in 2.6.
It wasn't safe to do that in 2.4 either. That would easily unload your
USB controller drivers, USB keyboard and USB mouse drivers, as they all
do not increment their in-use count.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-18 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-18 15:03 module use count & unloading Thomas Koeller
2003-12-18 16:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-12-18 22:03 ` Thomas Koeller
2003-12-18 22:22 ` Greg KH
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