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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:55:36 -0700 |
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"Dmitri Pogosyan" <pogosyan@×××××××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> Absence of autounloading is not a property of gentoo, but of recent |
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> kernels. Somewhere along Linux people decided that unloading unused |
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> modules is not that useful :( |
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> Am I right, actually ? |
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As I remember it was decided that it could be dangerous to allow |
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module unloading. The main problem was that of potential for race |
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conditions. For example a programme might be using a device when |
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another one unloaded it. Usage counts were meant to prevent this, but |
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were considered unreliable. As a result the ability to unload modules |
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is now a configurable option in the kernel, along with forced unloading. |
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Ian. |
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EOM |
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