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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:05:36 -0400
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] race in request_module()
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> * there is no way to distinguish between failing modprobe and successful
>   one followed by rmmod -a (e.g. called by cron).  For one thing, we
>   don't pass exit value of modprobe to caller of request_module().

> Comments?

Please do not concern yourself with rmmod -a running from cron.
For one thing, it helpfuly removes your USB keyboard support.
I do not think any distributions install it anymore.

-- Pete
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