From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EYDlk-00069z-As for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:27:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA52PSgg027498; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:25:28 GMT Received: from mra01.ch.as12513.net (mra01.ch.as12513.net [82.153.252.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA52PRrV031200 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:25:27 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra01.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C1F28C261 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra01.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra01.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29102-01-63 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from iahastie.local.net (213-152-32-28.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.32.28]) by mra01.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260CC28C1EB for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail by iahastie.local.net with spam-scanned (Exim 4.54) id 1EYDkA-0007uJ-4c for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:25:26 +0000 Received: from iahastie.local.net ([192.168.20.1] ident=ianh) by iahastie.local.net with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EYDk9-0007uE-EI for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:25:21 +0000 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:25:20 +0000 From: Ian Hastie To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: modules Message-ID: <20051105022520.59cd84b5@iahastie.local.net> In-Reply-To: <200511042255.jA4Mtap01618@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> References: <200511042255.jA4Mtap01618@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.15 (GTK+ 2.8.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Archives-Salt: 6f76c26d-74fc-4e84-b728-a717c5dd9885 X-Archives-Hash: 452b75636862697c11bd4d4e3b5e8ad9 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:55:36 -0700 "Dmitri Pogosyan" wrote: > Absence of autounloading is not a property of gentoo, but of recent > kernels. Somewhere along Linux people decided that unloading unused > modules is not that useful :( > > Am I right, actually ? As I remember it was decided that it could be dangerous to allow module unloading. The main problem was that of potential for race conditions. For example a programme might be using a device when another one unloaded it. Usage counts were meant to prevent this, but were considered unreliable. As a result the ability to unload modules is now a configurable option in the kernel, along with forced unloading. -- Ian. EOM -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list