Re: purpose of modular mca recovery

Russ Anderson
2005-08-09T20:45:31Z

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.

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Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com