From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Module unloading policy (should be killed from .config ?)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:59:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094079597l.8614l.0l@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
Hi all...
Since 2.6.8.1-mm3, my system hangs when I modprobe -r ipt_MASQUERADE
(yup, you guessed, its an SMP box). Just locks hard.
A kernel build without module unloading seems to work. I heard about
module unloading not being safe, but this is the first time it hits me
seriously. If it is so dangerous and deprecated, why is still in Kconfig ?
Could you kill it and remove the code completely ? Because I suppose that
the idea is not to fix drivers...
But I guess this is going to break a lot of distros. At least Mandrake
initscripts is plenty of <modprobe, test, rmmod | modprobe -r> snippets.
Do not know if this is going to break cases like
modprobe -r xxxx || do_more
Could modprobe at least return 0 to the shell when removing ?
What is going on ?
TIA
--
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es> \ Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free
Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Beta 1) for i586
Linux 2.6.8.1-mm4 (gcc 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)) #8
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2004-09-01 22:59 J.A. Magallon [this message]
2004-09-01 23:23 ` Dave Jones
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