Re: Bug#160507: hotplug: module removal makes shutdown take a long time and sometimes triggers Oops...
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Russell Coker wrote:
> I recommend that you download and listen to the mp3 of Rusty's talk from the
> 2002 Linux Kernel Summit. It's a 57 minute talk about the problems with the
> current module system and how it's virtually impossible to safely unload
> modules. Rusty is proposing that modules NEVER be unloaded, and in the
> discussion I get the impression that Alan Cox and Theodore Ts'o are taking
> serious note of the issue.
So, write a new module system, that allows it to be done safely. Or, fix the
current system so it can be done.
Bugs should be fixed, not ignored.
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