[Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed

Jan Beulich JBeulich at novell.com
Fri Apr 29 01:31:27 PDT 2011


>>> On 29.04.11 at 10:10, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:41:10 +0100
> 
>> You talk of rmmod on the very module, but the issue is about
>> modprobe -r on a dependent module. I cannot believe you consider
>> it correct that *implicit* unloading of bridge.ko should happen when
>> bridges are configured.
> 
> Which module in particular depends upon bridge and causes the
> problem?

The problem was observed (a long time ago) with ebtable_broute,
and I cannot see how this would have changed meanwhile.

Jan



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