Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:31:25 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. |
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First off - we're not changing fundamental module stuff any more.
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Rusty Russell wrote: > > No, it would just leak memory. Not really a concern for developers. > It's fairly trivial to hack up a backdoor "remove all freed modules > and be damned" thing for developers if there's real demand.
It's not just a developer thing. At least installers etc used to do some device probing by loading modules and depending on the result.
Linus
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