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

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:37:39 +0800
Herbert Xu <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Cheers,

It is only the nested removal problem.

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