Re: Bug#160507: hotplug: module removal makes shutdown take a long time and sometimes triggers Oops...
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Russell Coker wrote:
> Yes, and there are many such bugs. I think that they were considering
> removing the module unload functionality from the kernel to resolve such
> issues. I've been meaning to listen to the MP3 from the Linux Kernel Summit
> on this topic...
Er, just because you remove the ability to unload a module, doesn't mean you
fix the bug. The bug is now just hidden.
*All* code should properly clean up after itself, in all cases.
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