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...
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