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

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:26:04 -0700

Erik Andersen <andersen@inconnect.com> writes:
>Seems to me a perfect time for a /proc/kmod/auto_unload sysctl
>entry. On bootup, it defaults to off (i.e. don't do any unloading --
>let userspace handle it all). As part of startup scripts after
>everything else is all taken care of, the init scripts could
>set this to "1" meaning let kmod start handling auto-module unloading
>now since the boot is finished and everything should be in a nice,
>safe, sane state.

I see no advantage of this over just letting rmmod run from
cron after the boot has completed. Your method increases kernel
complexity, Linux-speicific kernel features, number of daemon process
and kernel memory footprint..

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