Re: negative mod use count

[Dr. Kelsey Hudson]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Boris Dragovic wrote:
> what does negative module use count mean?

That means that there's a bug in someone's driver.
For some reason, the function to decrement the module use is called more
than once when a controlling process releases use of a module. 

This will prevent you from being able to 'rmmod' or 'modprobe -r' it; a
"Device or resource busy" error or similar will result IIRC. 

Submit a bug to the driver maintainer.

 Kelsey Hudson                                           [e-mail] 
 Software Engineer
 Compendium Technologies, Inc                               [phone]
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