Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161062AbVKXKpt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:45:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030392AbVKXKps (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:45:48 -0500 Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]:40838 "EHLO waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030383AbVKXKpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:45:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:45:36 +0100 From: Christoph Pleger To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Autoclean of modules Message-Id: <20051124114536.7dcb61b6.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> Organization: Universitaet Dortmund X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-sun-solaris2.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 17 Hello, Until a few minutes ago I assumed that modules that have been inserted automatically or by "modprobe -k" into the kernel are being removed by calling "rmmod -a" twice if these modules are unused. But I just realized that this works neither with kernel 2.4.30 nor with kernel 2.6.11.12. So, what is the matter with autoclean of modules? Regards Christoph - 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/