Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

From: David Howells (David.Howells@nexor.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 07:07:08 EST


Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@student.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Whats the problem with just not allowing the module to unload at all?
> Whats the point in unloading a module anyways. Ok, I know - debugging,
> etc. - but for a "release" version this is not important. Also upgrading -
> but for desktop boxes (for which this wine stuff is) rebooting seems
> appropriate here, too.

It's not all that hard to do... and it does mean you can have demand-loadable
and -unloadable modules. Also I am writing/debugging it at the moment, and so
I like being able to unload and reload the module.

David Howells
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