Re: How can a loadable kernel module remove itself?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Tue, 2003-11-18 10:45:57 -0500, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0311181036590.783-100000@ida.rowland.org>:
> Say I've got a kernel module that decides its job is done, and it wants to 
> unload itself automatically.  Is there any way to do that?  Basically I'm 
> looking for the opposite of the request_module() function, except that 
> I've already got a pointer to the module in question, i.e., THIS_MODULE.

If the module's runtime is *really* limited (eg. I oftenly use very
small modules to printk() me some bytes from some in-kernel data
structures), then just do what you need to do in the function
"registered" with module_init() and return with != 0...

MfG, JBG

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