From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261275AbVAMSyc (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:54:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261232AbVAMRGU (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:06:20 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:42881 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261216AbVAMRFn (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:05:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:05:28 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Rusty Russell Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , adaplas@pol.net, lkml - Kernel Mailing List , dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill symbol_get & friends Message-ID: <20050113170528.GA24590@lst.de> References: <20050112203136.GA3150@lst.de> <1105575573.12794.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1105575573.12794.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > If you don't hold a reference, then yes, the module can go away. This > hasn't been a huge problem for users in the past. There's a single users, and it has these problems. > The lack of users is because, firstly, dynamic dependencies are less > common than static ones, and secondly because the remaining inter-module > users (AGP and mtd) have not been converted. AGP doesn't use dynamic symbols anymore, only mtd is gone. And I'd rather see it not switching to symbol_get.