Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > is there any reason to built this code modular? After all it would > usually not be loaded when it was needed. Not allowing modular mca > recovery would help greatly because it's using some symbols that we'd > prefer to unexport before chaning some implementation details > (tasklist_lock and maybe force_sig)
It is extremely handy for testing to be able to insmod/rmmod mca_recovery to test changes, rather than having to reboot the kernel. It is also a handly way to turn it on/off the recovery code or upgrade without having to reboot. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
