linux-kernel - Re: modules: remove -w option (ie. !O

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Message-ID: <1275572456.21786.177.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:40:55 -0400
From:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modules: remove -w option (ie. !O_NONBLOCK)?

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:55 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:

>    Since waiting module removal was never implemented in modprobe, I wonder
> if we should simply get rid of it?  (It's implemented in rmmod only).
> Unused code is buggy code, and there doesn't seem to be a demand for removing
> modules "at some time in the future".
> 
> Thoughts?

I'll think some more after coffee this morning but my first instinct is
"sure, few people care about module removal anyway any more" :)

Jon.


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