From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 30 02:13:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA17454 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 02:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [207.198.1.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA17447 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 02:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA21778; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 05:12:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199704300912.FAA21778@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: Continual Education (was Re: A Desparate Plea) In-Reply-To: <199704300600.PAA26367@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Apr 30, 97 03:30:10 pm" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 05:12:35 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A relevant question. Most LKMs are loaded once and never unloaded; > these aren't a problem source. The LKM framework was a bit of a > kludge at the time, and has perhaps not been brought completely up to > snuff simply because it worked "well enough". I use LKMs in kernel development - the posix4 work I've been doing has been all via LKMs and I load and unload probably 100 times between reboots. -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936