On Dom, 2010-09-19 at 14:32 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > I think it works the same way for any other SCSI driver and it's > pretty convenient during development. You can unload any network > driver module while the network is still up too. Module reference > count doesn't have any specific meaning of 'use' preassigned other > than it's there to prevent unloading module while the code and data > are being actively used by the processor. It's unfortunate that the > way module reference count is used for libata is causing discomfort to > you but I need much better reason to change it. Discomfort? Not really, sorry if my stubbornness felt like it. No, I'm fine with it. I just thought it was weird the change of behaviour from 2.6.32, plus felt that the "Used by" field by lsmod was incorrectly set at 0 since the module is, in fact, being used (e) If you say both behaviours are expected and preferred, besides being consistent with other modules (something I didn't know), I really can't argue any more. Thanks for the explanation and sorry for the noise :) -- Pedro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
