Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261928AbUCINlM (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:41:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261933AbUCINlM (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:41:12 -0500 Received: from p68.rivermarket.wintek.com ([208.13.56.68]:56828 "EHLO dust.p68.rivermarket.wintek.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261928AbUCINlJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:41:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:43:40 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Goddard To: rihad Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel-digest@lists.us.dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release In-Reply-To: <404D9966.6080903@mail.ru> Message-ID: References: <20040303153403.21649.81059.Mailman@linux.us.dell.com> <4048D503.10808@mail.ru> <20040309081948.GI22057@kroah.com> <404D9966.6080903@mail.ru> X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: N/a X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: BCBC 0868 DB78 22F3 A657 785D 6E3B 7ACB 584E B835 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 22 On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, rihad wrote: [Snip] > Does the devfs/udev /dev entry get removed when doing rmmod? I though > not. But since the module isn't there anymore, doing mount /dev/cdrom > /cdrom would give "No such device". Not a problem per se, but then > probably rmmod -a isn't as a wise thing to do with udev as it is with > devfs. Bad. See past linux-kernel threads on how problematic module unloading is (and how insanely hard it'd be to fix those problems). You really shouldn't be using rmmod unless you're a developer as it is. -- Alex Goddard agoddard at purdue dot edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/