Re: Bug#160507: hotplug: module removal makes shutdown take a long time and sometimes triggers Oops...
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:57, Adam Heath wrote:
> 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.
Please try and be serious.
Re-writing large parts of the kernel and the user-space utilities to match is
a serious task. Even when it is complete we will still be supporting the old
code for a long time (we still support 2.2 kernels now).
Making a one line change to a script is an easy thing to do and can be done
now with no pain.
Adam, if I was to take your approach then I would close most bugs filed
against LILO with the message "get a new BIOS and it'll all work".
In fact if I used your line of reasoning then I expect I could close most bugs
filed against my packages (and also save myself a lot of development time
that currently goes into work-arounds for bugs in other people's code). With
that development time spent on fixing other bugs instead I could probably get
all bugs against all my packages closed.
But that wouldn't give a good result.
Russell Coker
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