From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 19:33:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E7C837B41D for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13102 invoked by uid 100); 31 Mar 2002 03:32:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15526.33636.533548.116748@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:32:52 -0600 To: Walter Hop Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Upgrading modules on a running kernel? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 In , Walter Hop typed: > I don't know what I would gain from this knowledge, but: would it be > possible to recompile a kernel module, unload the old version and reload > the new version, without the system becoming unstable? Yes, it's possible. That's the preferred method for testing work on a kernel component. It doesn't work on all modules, as some of them don't remove, or don't remove cleanly, or have other problems when you try this. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message