From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] No more module removal -- Unconference track
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:34:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1wqa4v3nx.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140819160917.GF5423@mwanda> (Dan Carpenter's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:09:17 +0300")
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> writes:
Dan> If you rmmod a module it probably means that your code was buggy
Dan> before you started the rmmod. We already taint the kernel when the
Dan> kernel oopses. It's the same thing.
Buggy does not imply that the rest of the kernel is left in a mangled
state. Also, I load and unload device driver modules many, many times
per day. A significant win on large systems that take half an hour to
boot.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-19 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-19 14:48 Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-19 14:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 15:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-19 15:40 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-08-19 15:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 16:09 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-08-19 16:34 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2014-08-19 16:59 ` Rik van Riel
2014-08-19 17:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 16:43 ` David Woodhouse
2014-08-19 17:13 ` Grant Likely
2014-08-19 17:23 ` David Woodhouse
2014-08-19 15:54 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-25 11:01 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-25 11:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-08-26 5:24 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-27 23:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-26 21:39 ` David Howells
2014-08-26 21:45 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-08-27 6:43 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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