Re: How can a loadable kernel module remove itself?

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 12:08:41 EST


On Tue, 2003-11-18 10:45:57 -0500, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0311181036590.783-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Say I've got a kernel module that decides its job is done, and it wants to
> unload itself automatically. Is there any way to do that? Basically I'm
> looking for the opposite of the request_module() function, except that
> I've already got a pointer to the module in question, i.e., THIS_MODULE.

If the module's runtime is *really* limited (eg. I oftenly use very
small modules to printk() me some bytes from some in-kernel data
structures), then just do what you need to do in the function
"registered" with module_init() and return with != 0...

MfG, JBG

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