Re: Testers wanted: exorcised kmod.c: no more daemon!

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:46:45 -0700

In article <19980414070102.26141@mojo.org> you write:
>On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:32:41PM -0700, Kirk Petersen wrote:
>> I like the idea of removing the auto unloading code, since it is
>> something that can certainly be done in user space. An argument *could*
>> be made that not all systems have cron. But I've been thinking, how
>> necessary is automatic unloading? I can't think of any good example
>> where *auto* unloading is necessary.
>
>If you use modules to have an apparently ``full'' featured
>kernel in minimum memory, you only want floppy.o to be
>loaded and taking up valuable RAM when actually using the floppy
>drive.

As my original posting describes, you have not lost the ability
to do automatic unloading of modules. You just have to add a line to
root's crontab to have "rmmod -a" execute periodically.

"rmmod -a" does exactly the same thing as the periodic
unloading part of the old kmod deamon. They each execute just one
system call: unload_module(NULL). They each unload only the unused
automatically loaded modules.

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