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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: linux-os@analogic.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Harald Dunkel <harald@coware.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10: "[permanent]" modules?
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:58:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e05010605584cdcd400@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501060744330.17811@chaos.analogic.com>

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:46:53 -0500 (EST), linux-os
<linux-os@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:11:10AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> Seems that for 2.6.10 I cannot unload ide modules.
> >> 'lsmod | grep permanent" lists
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> Is this on purpose?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> 
> Can you explain? Normally if a module is no longer in use, it
> can be unloaded. I'm sure that there are number of folks
> who would like to know how come it's now necessary to reboot
> to get rid of some module no longer in use.

It can be unloaded given that the needed locking
and cleanup code are in place...

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-06 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-06  7:11 2.6.10: "[permanent]" modules? Harald Dunkel
2005-01-06  9:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 12:46   ` linux-os
2005-01-06 13:58     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2005-01-06 16:30       ` Alan Cox

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