Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 06:36:29 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bschellenberger@nc.rr.com> Cc: Holt Grendal <holtor@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules Message-ID: <20020713043628.GL295@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020713034002.0BF72BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> <20020713034002.0BF72BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>
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> From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bschellenberger@nc.rr.com> > To: Holt Grendal <holtor@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:40:02 -0400 > > On Friday 12 July 2002 10:33 pm, Holt Grendal wrote: > | My kernal has these modules loaded: > | > kldstat > | > | Id Refs Address Size Name > | 1 3 0xc0100000 1bb548 kernel > | 2 1 0xc5b8d000 14000 linux.ko > | Is it safe to Unload them or will this Crash the system? > > If it's unsafe to unload them, the kernel should refuse your request to do > so, and kldunload will complain, so there's no harm in trying. I can't recall which exact module was it, but I got my machine panic trying to unload a kernel module. That was 4.4-STABLE, IIRC, so maybe it's gotten better. These senior moments are terrible... -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 6:33AM up 19:59, 13 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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