Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed

Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So we have an unsolvable problem here then, unless infrastructure gets added
> that allows a module to declare itself as not-implicit-unload-safe, forcing
> modprobe -r to keep its hands off it. Ugly.

Yes I've always wanted to have a separate count that indicates
a module is in use but does not prevent its immediate removal.

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