http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12272 ------- Comment #19 from tytso@xxxxxxx 2009-01-17 10:24 ------- Um, why are you loading and unloading so many modules? Note that it is not necessarily guaranteed to be safe to be unloading modules. In particular with network drivers, there are often race conditions that can crash your machine if you unload a module. Part of the problem is that some kernel maintainers don't believe that it is valid/good thing to rmmod a kernel, and in practice, it is often impossible to make module remove race-free. Some maintainers therefore don't take even basic precautions to avoid the most obvious race problems. So if you have something which is automatically unloading modules --- don't. It's not supported. If you can narrow it down to a single module which is racy on unload, and you can reproduce it, and polite request help from the module maintainer to fix it, they might feel magnanimous and fix it for you --- but be warned there are some maintainers (davem comes to mind) who believe so strenuously that module unloading is evil and shouldn't be supported that even if you give them a patch to fix some module unload race condition, they may not accept it. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
