Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 1998 05:05:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | Antoine Reid <> | Subject | Re: Testers wanted: exorcised kmod.c: no more daemon! |
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> As my original posting describes, you have not lost the ability > to do automatic unloading of modules. You just have to add a line to > root's crontab to have "rmmod -a" execute periodically. > > "rmmod -a" does exactly the same thing as the periodic > unloading part of the old kmod deamon. They each execute just one > system call: unload_module(NULL). They each unload only the unused > automatically loaded modules.
hmmm didn't the old kerneld remove the modules that had a count=0 for a period of time, rather that just periodically remove the modules? let's say I stop using a device at 23:59:55 and start using it at 00:00:05, now only 10 seconds have elapsed, but my root cronjob might have "rmmod -a" at midnight and the module is unloaded.. hmm makes any sense? any easy way to fix this, while still having a userland unload?
just my 1 cent... (not even worth 2 cents!) thanx for reading antoine
Antoine "Grand %" Reid / ve2asm linux@jonction.net / ve2asm@linux.usan.net
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