From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Ross Vandegrift <ross@kallisti.us>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why can't I remove a kernel module (or: what uses a given module)?
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:59:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45732C8E.4060801@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061203154936.GB26669@kallisti.us>
Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:58:24PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> You mean the "Used by" column? No, it's not used by any other module
>> according to lsmod output.
>>
>> Any other methods of checking what uses /dev/sda*?
>
> There's a good chance that if it was loaded at system boot, hald or
> udev may be doing something with it.
This machine doesn't have hal; when I kill udevd still doesn't help.
Yes, something's using that drive, be it a program, a module (unlikely),
or something that is compiled directly in the kernel (for example,
md/raid1).
But what is it?
Kernel knows it, as it refuses to remove the module (via rmmod), but how
to tell kernel to share this knowledge with me?
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-03 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-03 11:20 why can't I remove a kernel module (or: what uses a given module)? Tomasz Chmielewski
2006-12-03 11:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-03 11:58 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2006-12-03 15:49 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-12-03 19:59 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2006-12-03 23:42 ` Jim Crilly
2006-12-04 8:02 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2006-12-04 10:10 ` Tobias Oed
2006-12-04 10:39 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2006-12-05 0:15 ` Michal Jaegermann
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