Re: [patch 1/2] show being-loaded/being-unloaded indicator for modules

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 01:21:16 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:09:23 +0100
>
> devzero@web.de wrote:
> > this looks very useful!
> >
> > >Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly
> > >which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself.
> >
> > no wonder, as most modules seem to be very quiet on on load/unload.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > but i wonder if some mandatory "print a message on init/exit"
> > wouldn`t give a benefit to admins or end-users, too. sure this would
> > additionally clutter up syslog, but it would add transparency.
>
> Regardless of the usefulness, really, if this would be mandatory for all
> modules, it should be done in the module loader itself....
> But I'm not entirely convinced how useful that is to do always, although I
> can see the point of having it as debug option, similar to the initcall
> debug stuff...

We could overload initcall_debug for this if we wanted to be consistant.  But 
I'm just not sure it'd be clear when to turn it on...

Rusty.