Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:07:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:07:29 -0400 Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82]:58777 "EHLO mailout05.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:07:29 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Oliver Neukum To: Tom Rini Subject: Re: [OKS] Module removal Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:10:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20020702155319.25599.qmail@eklektix.com> <200207021807.06174.oliver@neukum.name> <20020702174831.GP20920@opus.bloom.county> In-Reply-To: <20020702174831.GP20920@opus.bloom.county> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200207022010.50572.oliver@neukum.name> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 25 Am Dienstag, 2. Juli 2002 19:48 schrieb Tom Rini: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 06:07:06PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > developing drivers and such. Aunt Tillie would no longer be able to > > > remove modules from her kernel, but that's not likely to bother her > > > too much... > > > > It would very much bother uncle John, who is in high availability. > > Then the HA kernel turns on the ability to still remove modules, along > with all of the other things needed in an HA environment but not > elsewhere. Provided removing a module doesn't become a horribly racy, > barely usable bit of functionality, which I hope it won't. Either there is a race or there isn't. Such a thing is unusable on a production system. Regards Oliver - 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/