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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:48:09 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
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Subject: simple handling of module removals Re: [OKS] Module removal
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Hi!

Okay. So we want modules and want them unload. And we want it bugfree.

So... then its okay if module unload is *slow*, right?

I believe you can just freeze_processes(), unload module [now its
safe, you *know* noone is using that module, because all processes are
in your refrigerator], thaw_processes().

That's going to take *lot* of time, but should be very simple and very
effective.

								Pavel
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