Re: [OKS] Module removal

From: Oliver Neukum (oliver@neukum.name)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 13:10:50 EST


Am Dienstag, 2. Juli 2002 19:48 schrieb Tom Rini:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 06:07:06PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > developing drivers and such. Aunt Tillie would no longer be able to
> > > remove modules from her kernel, but that's not likely to bother her
> > > too much...
> >
> > It would very much bother uncle John, who is in high availability.
>
> Then the HA kernel turns on the ability to still remove modules, along
> with all of the other things needed in an HA environment but not
> elsewhere. Provided removing a module doesn't become a horribly racy,
> barely usable bit of functionality, which I hope it won't.

Either there is a race or there isn't. Such a thing is unusable on a
production system.

        Regards
                Oliver

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