Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 16:46:44 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <393C11B4.D40B9EBD@vangelderen.org> References: <200006051916.MAA00466@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > 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",
Did I suggest kldunload --unused-modules -f ? I didn't think so.
> and if a module wants to unload itself due to
> "unuse", it can already do so.
You wouldn't have control over that process if the modules decides
for itself. It's a sysadmin decision to unload modules, not the
module's decision.
Cheers,
Jeroen
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