Re: negative mod use count

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:17:41 +0000


On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:55:30PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
> 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.

Not necessarily. Please read the other replies (specifically mine) to
discover the real answer as to why modules can _legally_ have negative
use counts.

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