From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] race in request_module()
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:05:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204230505.g3N55a815308@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1019523121.12485.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
> * there is no way to distinguish between failing modprobe and successful
> one followed by rmmod -a (e.g. called by cron). For one thing, we
> don't pass exit value of modprobe to caller of request_module().
> Comments?
Please do not concern yourself with rmmod -a running from cron.
For one thing, it helpfuly removes your USB keyboard support.
I do not think any distributions install it anymore.
-- Pete
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-23 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-04-23 5:05 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2002-04-23 0:49 [RFC] race in request_module() Alexander Viro
2002-04-23 0:58 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-04-23 1:05 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-23 2:42 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-04-23 3:01 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-23 3:30 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-23 3:35 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-23 3:45 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-23 18:09 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-23 22:56 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-29 2:42 ` Rusty Russell
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