Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261189AbVALNsM (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:48:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261190AbVALNsM (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:48:12 -0500 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:14007 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261189AbVALNsK (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:48:10 -0500 Message-ID: <41E52A87.8080407@didntduck.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:47:51 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird (X11/20041216) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: selvakumar nagendran CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Removing a module even if use count is not zero References: <20050112085345.88349.qmail@web60607.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050112085345.88349.qmail@web60607.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 22 selvakumar nagendran wrote: > hello linux-experts, > I inserted my module into the running kernel that > intercepts read system call. I am using kernel 2.4.28. > Now, I am unable to remove it since each and every > time, the module is used by some process. How can I > remove the module even if the usecount is not zero? > Can anyone help me regarding this? > > Thanks, > selva > Reboot. If you remove it, the system will likely crash. -- Brian Gerst - 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/