From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757602AbYAGOWW (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:22:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753622AbYAGOWP (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:22:15 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41395 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753089AbYAGOWO (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:22:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 06:21:16 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: devzero@web.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] show being-loaded/being-unloaded indicator for modules Message-ID: <20080107062116.0aa37438@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <90564384@web.de> References: <90564384@web.de> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:09:23 +0100 devzero@web.de wrote: > this looks very useful! > > >Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly > >which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself. > > no wonder, as most modules seem to be very quiet on on load/unload. > > > but i wonder if some mandatory "print a message on init/exit" > wouldn`t give a benefit to admins or end-users, too. sure this would > additionally clutter up syslog, but it would add transparency. Regardless of the usefulness, really, if this would be mandatory for all modules, it should be done in the module loader itself.... But I'm not entirely convinced how useful that is to do always, although I can see the point of having it as debug option, similar to the initcall debug stuff... -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org