From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modules: remove -w option (ie. !O_NONBLOCK)?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:40:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275572456.21786.177.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006032255.33101.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:55 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Since waiting module removal was never implemented in modprobe, I wonder
> if we should simply get rid of it? (It's implemented in rmmod only).
> Unused code is buggy code, and there doesn't seem to be a demand for removing
> modules "at some time in the future".
>
> Thoughts?
I'll think some more after coffee this morning but my first instinct is
"sure, few people care about module removal anyway any more" :)
Jon.
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2010-06-03 13:25 modules: remove -w option (ie. !O_NONBLOCK)? Rusty Russell
2010-06-03 13:40 ` Jon Masters [this message]
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