Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:03:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:03:58 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:15373 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:03:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:09:51 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Gerd Knorr cc: Linux-Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RELEASE] module-init-tools 0.8 In-Reply-To: <200211281616.gASGGOE6012229@bytesex.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 31 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Gerd Knorr wrote: > lsmod doesn't work at this point (hangs too, likely the same lock). > The deadlock prevents any further module loading (autofs, nfs and > others) and makes the system unusable. > > > Module debugging is next to impossible right now. The apm.o module > oopses for me in 2.5.50. ksymoops isn't able to translate any symbol > located in modules. The in-kernel symbol decoder (CONFIG_KALLSYMS) > doesn't work too. The new module stuff has been in for about three weeks now, many people are having problems with it, and I have yet to see a single post praising the *actual* benefits. Will there be a time when this is reverted and rescheduled for a future release (2.7?) or is this a do-or-die feature? It doesn't have the feel of something solid having a few corner cases fixed, it feels like a bunch of band-aids which will unstick in future releases and continue to be high maintenence. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/