Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 21:39:58 EST


On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> I guess it's back to fixing up reference counting in the rest of the
> kernel. It's not hard, it's just not done. 8(

Well, it's _never_ been done, so saying "we have to fix it for 2.6.x" is
obviously not true. It's one of those "nobody ends up really caring"
issues, since only root can unload anyway.

                Linus

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