[systemd-devel] Communicating need

[Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 00:27, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
>
> > you can blacklist it if there is no userspace tools to handle it. That
> would
> > require some packaging changes to cope, but it is doable.
> > If it's desirable to load it if there is some user space using it, one
> you'd
> > need to add some udev rule to listen for module, check for userspace
> (dbus
> > name? but where? all user session bus? or with the user in current
> seat?),
> > then rmmod if there is nothing using it.
>
> Module are _never_ unloaded, unless you hack on them, or they are
> totally broken and you can't get your box working otherwise. I hope
> you are not seriously suggesting anything like that.


 I said it was not my preferred approach anyway :-)

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