Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:02:48 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: cifs causes high system load avg, oopses when unloaded on 2.6.0-test11 |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> Hmm, this unload needs to hand back failure to module unload when it>> >> can't nuke inodes etc. I'd suggest not using it as a module for the >> time being.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > I don't see how I could pass failure back on module unload even if I > could detect problems freeing the memory associated with cifs's inode > cache - there is no place for return code info - see the caller ie the > call to mod->exit() in sys_delete_module (about line 735 of > kernel/module.c)
Right, the facility isn't there. Maybe making the thing not-unloadable would be the best option for the time being.
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