Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262826AbVAFN6S (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:58:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262829AbVAFN6S (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:58:18 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.206]:26381 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262826AbVAFN6I (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:58:08 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=nyKsf+jtRqnqckhS76Cl+aMz3OapztSGjoUT9gAsbf4mNaZKrBsbvK6GHg9iaLgcdvtdr25pERzOHv21QI3dY/M8LpQTd0TT/7ivpG4oPIhbXJ1wBVtez/pmzi+FCCigsZrGJYmOPyA9ahDN2AFIt/dPvQ/iOZtYikhVOXUuNDw= Message-ID: <58cb370e05010605584cdcd400@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:58:07 +0100 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: linux-os@analogic.com Subject: Re: 2.6.10: "[permanent]" modules? Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Harald Dunkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41DCE48E.5010604@coware.com> <20050106092858.GB15162@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 32 On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:46:53 -0500 (EST), linux-os 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... - 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/