Re: /proc entry UNregistration (fwd)

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:40:38 -0400


Linux Lists wrote:

> I'm looking for information on how to UNregister a /proc entry when
> unloading a kernel module. I've found some other drivers that register
> /proc entries (by the means of the proc_register function), which is
> useful for monolythic kernels, but when it goes to modules, we need to
> clean up these entries before unloading the kernel module. For these
> cases, I couldn't find any reasonable example / documentation.

The fs/binfmt_misc.c code is a reasonable example of a module that
registers and unregisters /proc entries. (Many other modules do as
well.)

Regards,
Bill

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