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

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:47:11 -0400

hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) said:
> Have the kernel time stamp when the use count goes to zero (in
> MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT) and expose it via /proc/modules. Then you can see
> from user space how long the module has been unused.

Why not just set a timer on count == 0, and when it goes off unload?

But then again, I don't have a clue about all this stuff. I still don't
understand why a separate thread is used to load modules. And I don't
understand why kmod is trying to do everything by itself, not using some
kind of bottom half to do the loading.

Anybody care to explain?

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