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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:34:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com
Subject:   Re: Loading KLD from the kernel
Message-ID:  <199901220634.WAA10001@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901190915370.40696-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Jan 19, 99 09:21:18 am"

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Doug Rabson writes:
> > I tried simply incrementing lf->userrefs after loading the module
> > from the kernel, but somehow it went back to zero (?)
> 
> This field is a count of how many times a user has loaded the file using
> kldload(2).  It is there to prevent a user from unloading a file which was
> loaded explicitly by the kernel (e.g. as a dependancy).  Incrementing
> userrefs should have worked though - can you watch what happens in the
> debugger and find out why it is being reset?

Well, now it seems to work.. Nevermind :-)

-Archie

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