Re: More about MOD_INC_USE_COUNT

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:21:52PM -0800, Jose Luis Alarcon wrote:
>   One more thing about this:
> 
>   I put 'MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;' like the last line just before the key (}) that
> ends the cleanup_module() void function....and the program load with insmod
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
When the cleanup_module() is called, the module is already dead. The
function just has to take care of not leaving a dangling pointer
anywhere, but it can't return the module to use.

> and unload with rmmod without problems. lsmod tells that the module is used 
> by 0 (unused). All this with the 2.5.49 kernel. Maybe was a problem of the
> "situation" of the line.......

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