[2085] in linux-net channel archive
Re: modularizing some of the net code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilo)
Thu Mar 14 13:26:40 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:52:56 -0600 (CST)
From: lilo <lilo@lions.reseq.ungov>
Reply-To: lilo <TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu>
To: Tom Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM-RU.1.5.826688325.tdyas@er5.rutgers.edu>
On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Tom Dyas wrote:
> 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.
Each socket, and each interface, is a demand that the module be kept. So
I'd say do it for sockets and for interfaces. Routes will get deleted when
the interface comes down (right?) so shouldn't have any special significance
in determining whether the module stays. YMMV and no warranty on my
understanding, express or implied. ;)
lilo
