Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
> Hi all,
> most net device drivers have replaced MOD_INC/DEC_USE_COUNT with
> SET_MODULE_OWNER but SET_MODULE_OWNER doesn't do nothing.
> Therefore, those modules (though I can only vouch for 8139too) always
> report 0 use. Some people that had "modprobe -r" in their cronttab found
> it quite annoying.
> I'd guess that there's a good reason for why struct net_device doesn't
> have .owner field and why this happens. Can someone be so kind to point
> it
> out?
struct net_device does have an owner field, and SET_MODULE_OWNER
obviously _does_ do something.
If your interface is up, your net driver's module refcount is greater
than zero.
Jeff
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