> On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >I've gone back to problems filed and reproduced from 2.1.97 onwards
> >so far. My archive goes back a lot further, its just less and less
> >productive the further I dig (and more and more boring ;)).
>
> You are searching bugs? What about this one:
>
> Server:/root # cat /proc/modules
> Server:/root # ipv6 77120 -1 (autoclean)
>
> Isn't it nice have a negaitive modulecount?
> This one happens on a i486 with 2.1.106....
That's not a bug! If the module usecount is negative, a function is used
to check if the module can be unloaded. In case of the IPng implementation
this function is ipv6_unload(). The pointer module.can_unload is used to
tell the kernel the location of the function in the memory.
- clifford
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