David S. Miller wrote:
> Module reference counting added complications to net device
> handling, and once I killed it off we could begin addressing
Coding is tough, let's go shopping.
> all of the real bugs that exist with network devices. For example,
> now that we're foreced to make net devices dynamic memory in all
> cases we can deal with dangling procfs/sysfs references to the device
> sanely. Fixing that was not possible with module refcounting.
rmmod is now completely pointless, and developers now have one less
useful tool in their toolbox.
I code all the time doing "modprobe ; test ; rmmod", and that's now
impossible.
Jeff
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