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Date:      Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:16:45 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Yevmenkin, Maksim N,     CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kerneld for FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <200006051916.MAA00466@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:59:54 EDT." <393BEA9A.935BFBF0@vangelderen.org> 

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> Mike Smith wrote:
> [...]
> > This is, IMO, a good idea.  I certainly don't want some smartass daemon
> > unloading a module just because it thinks it should. 8)
> 
> You can always patch kldunload and have cron periodically execute a
>   kldunload --unused-modules
> Or?

I have no faith at all any metric other than one determined by the module 
itself to indicate "unuse", and if a module wants to unload itself due to 
"unuse", it can already do so.  I don't want or need a daemon to do this.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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