Re: Testers wanted: exorcised kmod.c: no more daemon!

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:23:31 -0700

>Losing the auto-unload would break at least one aspect of my setup, unless
>some method of saying "I'm done, take it out" from userspace was
>available. Specifically, I use the auto-unload feature to crank out the
>bttv module when done using the card, since having it loaded blocks out
>the "passthrough" audio port on the board.

As I said in my original message, just have "rmmod -a"
run periodically from root's crontab. In the example I gave,
it would run every five minutes. "rmmod -a" only unloads the
unused autoloaded modules. It is exactly the same thing
that the kmod daemon did. They both call unload_module(NULL).
So, my kmod changes do not create any new problems for you.

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