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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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