Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:35:21 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: some 2.5.66 issues |
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Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Now, something more problematic. I'm being told to use try_module_get() > instead of MOD_INC_USE_COUNT. Cool. Somehow, it returns 1. I had a look > at the code in linux/module.h and am a bit confused:
> Why does it only return 0 if the module is not alive? This sounds... > er... weird? Can someone please enlighten me?
Presumably so you can treat the result as a boolean true/false value.
Chris
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