On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 iafilius@xs4all.nl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just noticed after doing a 'ping6 ::1' ( and thereby
> autoloading ipv6 module):
>
> # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> <snip>
> ipv6 117152 -1 (autoclean)
> <snip>
This is by design. A negative usage count means that the readiness of the
module to be unloaded is not controlled by a usage count, but instead by
the return value of a function specific to that module (in this case,
ipv6_unload(); see linux/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c for details).
-bp
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