Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:03:45 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bschellenberger@nc.rr.com> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bschellenberger@nc.rr.com> Cc: Holt Grendal <holtor@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules Message-ID: <20020713050346.311E1BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020713043628.GL295@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> <20020713034002.0BF72BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> <20020713043628.GL295@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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On Saturday 13 July 2002 12:36 am, Roman Neuhauser wrote: | > 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. Well I almost wrote "the kernel will refuse" and then thought better of it and substituted "the kernel should refuse." I know that when I tried it just on a few of my modules that are currently loaded it refused to unload them on the grounds that they were in use, so it certainly "means" to detect the condition, but I must admit at not being shocked that it might not always be able to properly tell. | | These senior moments are terrible... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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