Re: [RELEASE] module-init-tools 0.8

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:09:51 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> lsmod doesn't work at this point (hangs too, likely the same lock).
> The deadlock prevents any further module loading (autofs, nfs and
> others) and makes the system unusable.
>
>
> Module debugging is next to impossible right now. The apm.o module
> oopses for me in 2.5.50. ksymoops isn't able to translate any symbol
> located in modules. The in-kernel symbol decoder (CONFIG_KALLSYMS)
> doesn't work too.

The new module stuff has been in for about three weeks now, many people
are having problems with it, and I have yet to see a single post praising
the *actual* benefits. Will there be a time when this is reverted and
rescheduled for a future release (2.7?) or is this a do-or-die feature?

It doesn't have the feel of something solid having a few corner cases
fixed, it feels like a bunch of band-aids which will unstick in future
releases and continue to be high maintenence.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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