Re: Little question about modules...

David Ford (david+nospam@killerlabs.com)
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:11:40 -0800 (PST)

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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> If the module controls its own unloading via a can_unload routine
> then the user count displayed by lsmod is always -1, irrespective of
> the real use count.

Maybe lsmod can show a blank for the field and (auto unload). That'd
probably draw a lot less "my module is broken" reports.

-d

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