From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: module references
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:23:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43855C5E.3050804@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9eb572492c718bfc89029063bbd082b5@penguinppc.org>
Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
>>
>>> Are modules ever automatically unloaded? When? If so, we need a lot
>>> more reference counting. If not, we've got some unnecessary complexity
>>> we should remove.
>>
>> It's done so you can not remove a module that is in use by GRUB or
>> another module. For example when you open a file for a long time.
>
> Please describe for me how I can trigger this bug. In other words, what
> commands can I run to unload a filesystem module while a file is open?
One way at least is to use font subsystem. That at least keeps file open.
See guide from Okuji's message how to create font file and:
insmod font
font .../fontfile.pff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-24 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-23 2:58 module references Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-23 12:33 ` Marco Gerards
2005-11-23 22:46 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-24 6:23 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2005-11-24 7:28 ` Marco Gerards
2005-11-24 7:57 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
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