From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 21:36:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349437B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B88B43E31 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 10353 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2002 04:36:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 13 Jul 2002 04:36:32 -0000 Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (localhost.bellavista.cz [127.0.0.1]) by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6D4aVrh033866; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 06:36:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (from roman@localhost) by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g6D4aT0U033863; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 06:36:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: freepuppy.bellavista.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@bellavista.cz using -f Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 06:36:29 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: Holt Grendal , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules Message-ID: <20020713043628.GL295@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , Holt Grendal , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> <20020713034002.0BF72BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020713034002.0BF72BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Brian T.Schellenberger > To: Holt Grendal , 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