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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:44:33 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kldunload DIAGNOSTIC idea... 
Message-ID:  <77806.1090392273@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:37:39 PDT." <20040720203739.GA72252@VARK.homeunix.com> 

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In message <20040720203739.GA72252@VARK.homeunix.com>, David Schultz writes:

>> Looking for sleep addresses inside the module might make sense too.
>
>But this is just a heuristic that may sometimes fail.  The module
>might be holding resources or locks, it could have callbacks, etc.
>If we're going to offer a forcible unload option, [...]

This has _nothing_ to do with forcible unload.

Please read the subject, again if necessary.

This is an idea for a debug tool which may help people properly
debug and implement unload *in general*.

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