Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:11:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] In-kernel module loader 1/7 |
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:58:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 19:38, Greg KH wrote: > > And with a LSM module, how can it answer that? There's no way, unless > > we count every time someone calls into our module. And if you do that, > > no one will even want to use your module, given the number of hooks, and > > the paths those hooks are on (the speed hit would be horrible.) > > So the LSM module always says no. Don't make other modules suffer
Ok, I don't have a problem with that, I was just trying to point out that not all modules can know when they are able to be unloaded, as Roman stated.
thanks,
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