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>>>>> "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.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering