Re: Forcible removal of modules

Keith Owens
2001-03-07T01:59:23Z

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:17:28 -0800 (PST),
Thomas Hood <thood@excite.com> wrote:
>My question is: Is there some better way of blocking
>all open() calls to a particular device driver while
>processes using it are being killed off?

Not yet. There have been some off list discussions about redoing the
module load/unload process to avoid races, as part of that we will get
forced module unregister followed by unload when the use count goes to
zero. Probably 2.5 changes.