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SubjectRe: some 2.5.66 issues
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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