From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
acme@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: dev->destructor
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 07:25:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030506.072529.52888036.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030505090820.50cd5a13.shemminger@osdl.org>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 09:08:20 -0700
On Sat, 03 May 2003 14:07:41 +1000
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> But Alexey said you can only call unregister_netdev from module
> unload, ie. if not a module, it can't be unloaded, hence no refcount
> needed. I wrote the above paragraph because I'm not sure if I
> understood Alexey correctly?
There are several flavors of pseudo-network devices like bridging
and VLAN that dynamically create/destroy netdev's even when they
are not modules.
I think you'll understand what Alexey/Rusty are saying better
if you consider statically compiled kernel code as a module with
an implicit non-zero reference count :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-30 6:26 dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-04-30 16:33 ` dev->destructor Stephen Hemminger
2003-05-01 1:10 ` dev->destructor kuznet
2003-05-01 7:00 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-01 12:01 ` dev->destructor Rusty Russell
2003-05-01 11:09 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-01 17:51 ` dev->destructor Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-01 16:55 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-01 17:28 ` dev->destructor Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-02 4:06 ` dev->destructor kuznet
2003-05-02 5:25 ` dev->destructor Rusty Russell
2003-05-02 20:48 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-03 4:07 ` dev->destructor Rusty Russell
2003-05-03 3:46 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-05 5:18 ` dev->destructor Rusty Russell
2003-05-03 4:00 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-05 16:08 ` dev->destructor Stephen Hemminger
2003-05-06 14:25 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-05-07 2:54 ` dev->destructor Rusty Russell
2003-05-05 20:00 ` dev->destructor Stephen Hemminger
2003-05-06 4:18 ` dev->destructor Rusty Russell
2003-05-06 14:23 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-06 22:32 ` [PATCH 2.5.69] IPV4 should use dev_hold Stephen Hemminger
2003-05-07 7:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 2:50 ` dev->destructor Rusty Russell
2003-05-07 3:58 ` dev->destructor David S. Miller
2003-05-06 22:35 ` dev->destructor Stephen Hemminger
2003-05-06 23:51 ` [RFC] Experiment with dev and module ref counts Stephen Hemminger
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