From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Anderson Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:45:31 +0000 Subject: Re: purpose of modular mca recovery Message-Id: <200508092045.j79KjVwv1893089@efs.americas.sgi.com> List-Id: References: <20050809203915.GB28917@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20050809203915.GB28917@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > is there any reason to built this code modular? After all it would > usually not be loaded when it was needed. Not allowing modular mca > recovery would help greatly because it's using some symbols that we'd > prefer to unexport before chaning some implementation details > (tasklist_lock and maybe force_sig) It is extremely handy for testing to be able to insmod/rmmod mca_recovery to test changes, rather than having to reboot the kernel. It is also a handly way to turn it on/off the recovery code or upgrade without having to reboot. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com