Re: MOD_INC_USE_COUNT

[John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:51:43PM -0800, Jose Luis Alarcon wrote:

>   I has a big surprise when, adding at the beginning of init_module()
> the macro MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, for have a module use counter. My program
> get compile well and insmod work too.
> 
>   But the surprise was when i did rmmod, cos the output said:
> 
> FATAL: the module is in use

Why are you surprised ? You marked the module as used by something when
you load it, of course it can't be unloaded.

>   I did lsmod, and i got that my module was used by [unsafe].

You should not be using MOD_INC_USE_COUNT in 2.5 kernels. And you
definitely shouldn't be doing it in init_module(), that makes no sense.

What do you actually believe MOD_INC_USE_COUNT does ?

regards
john

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