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modularizing some of the net code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Dyas)
Thu Mar 14 03:01:37 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 22:38:45 EST
From: Tom Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I was looking through the Appletalk and IPX code to see if there was
any way to turn the code into modules. It turned out to be a little
harder than I thought since there are some issues on when a rmmod
should be disallowed (usage count stuff).
Obviously, the usage count should be increased and decreased when a
socket is created and then later released (at the point of the kfree).
However, should the usage count be increased when interfaces and/or
routes are created and destroyed? It seems that they should be, but I
am not really sure.
In other words, any specific "criteria" to keep in mind?
Tom
