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SubjectRe: Driverfs updates
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > -It is slow.
>
> I wouldn't call it any fast when I think about the idea that 31 of my CPUs
> on Hawkeye shall be stopped because I unload a module. Sometimes at high
> noon my server (Hawkeye) can hardly keep up all the traffic. Just imagine
> a module would be unloaded then! That's the problem I'm having with it.
>
> What should make a lock for parts of the kernel slower than a lock for
> the _whole_ kernel?
>
> Regards,
> Thunder

The module unload is to be used only during module development (so you
don't have to re-boot), as was the very first conjecture in this thread.

The current 'auto-unload' in some distributions like RedHat will go away.
The only way a module will be unloaded is if you, as root, unload it.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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