| Weekly edition | Kernel | Security | Distributions | Search |
| Archives | Calendar | Subscribe | Write for LWN | LWN.net FAQ |
Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
| From: | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
| To: | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. | |
| Date: | Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:31:25 -0700 (PDT) | |
| Cc: | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, <arjanv@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |
First off - we're not changing fundamental module stuff any more. On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Rusty Russell wrote: > > No, it would just leak memory. Not really a concern for developers. > It's fairly trivial to hack up a backdoor "remove all freed modules > and be damned" thing for developers if there's real demand. It's not just a developer thing. At least installers etc used to do some device probing by loading modules and depending on the result. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
(Log in to post comments)