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From: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
To: "Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"Rahul Karnik" <rahul@genebrew.com>
Cc: <davem@redhat.com>, <arjanv@redhat.com>, <greg@kroah.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:10:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A20D5638D741DD4DBAAB80A95012C0AE3A9C4D@orsmsx409.jf.intel.com> (raw)


> From: Rusty Russell [mailto:rusty@rustcorp.com.au]

> > Last but not least weren't we moving towards a more modular kernel with
> > early userspace loading things from initrd as needed? Removing existing
> > module functionality, however broken it may be, seems to me a step
> > backward in this regard.
> 
> Not really.  Adding modules is required.  Removing them is a more
> dubious goal, and if we didn't already have it, I know we'd balk at
> doing it.

Can I add that it is really desirable to remove modules when developing
drivers? [and so to avoid reboots when loading new code?].

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault)

             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29  2:10 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-24 18:00 [PATCH] Remove module reference counting Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-27 18:50   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:11   ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-07-25 19:32   ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 22:26   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-26 19:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-26 19:37       ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-27  5:38         ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-27 11:10           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:09         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 19:34       ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-27 21:47         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-28  0:01           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28  0:12           ` Bill Nottingham
2003-07-28 11:38             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 20:33               ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-30  1:55                 ` Greg KH
2003-07-30 14:40                 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:40         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 18:11         ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-28 19:03           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-01  2:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-25 23:24   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 18:48     ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 22:43 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-25 23:37   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26 20:18   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-28 11:51 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-28 23:13   ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-29  2:39     ` Rahul Karnik

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