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Message-Id: <200801080805.00639.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:05:00 +1100 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: devzero@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] show being-loaded/being-unloaded indicator for modules On Tuesday 08 January 2008 01:21:16 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:09:23 +0100 > > devzero@....de wrote: > > this looks very useful! > > > > >Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly > > >which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself. > > > > no wonder, as most modules seem to be very quiet on on load/unload. > > > > > > > > > > but i wonder if some mandatory "print a message on init/exit" > > wouldn`t give a benefit to admins or end-users, too. sure this would > > additionally clutter up syslog, but it would add transparency. > > Regardless of the usefulness, really, if this would be mandatory for all > modules, it should be done in the module loader itself.... > But I'm not entirely convinced how useful that is to do always, although I > can see the point of having it as debug option, similar to the initcall > debug stuff... We could overload initcall_debug for this if we wanted to be consistant. But I'm just not sure it'd be clear when to turn it on... Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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