Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:08:06 +0100
From: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Subject: [users:00984] Re: Reference Count Problem in IPv6?
To: users@tahi.org
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:43:28AM -0800, Pramendra Singh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while doing some testing on IPv6 code for 2.6 kernel, I found that the
> default reference count
> for IPv6 module is '6'.
> 

I think this is the wrong list to discuss it, better you ask this on the
netdevel list on kernel.org

So far I know (but I maybe wrong here), this is because the ipv6 module hooks
into the linux networkstack in so many places here it was not possibility to
remove it in a clean way again, so the refcounting was used to
prevent unloading.

-- 
Karsten Keil