> > I just had a loooong discussion with Rusty on that subject, it's
> > indeed a nasty one.
> 
> Ah, he sucks another person into the "module unload" discussion.  My
> sympathies :)

Nah, I started it, since he is about 2 meters from me in the
office, that isn't difficult :)

> I agree, it's a difficult problem to solve, and something we aren't
> going to do for 2.6.  That's one reason why module unload is its own
> config option :)
> 
> Anyway, Rusty's proposal of "never unload, just mark not used" and then
> load a new copy into memory that he did during the OLS timeframe last
> year sounds like the only sane way to get this completely correct, with
> the trade off of never releasing memory.





-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
_______________________________________________
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To unsubscribe, use the last form field at:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel

Reply via email to