[patch] Re: rmmod -a does not unload unused modules in 2.2.x

Tuukka Toivonen (tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi)
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:09:35 +0200 (EET)

Strange thing -- I had similar problem and wrote a patch, which I was about
the send to the list just when I read your mails.

For first, rmmod -a has to be run 2 times before anything happens. But this
still doesn't clean up "(unused)" modules. Why? Maybe there is a reason,
but my system works fine with the test removed. Patch attached.

Could this be included in the kernel, and if not, why not?

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--- linux-2.2.13/kernel/module.c.old    Sun Dec 27 20:41:41 1998
+++ linux-2.2.13/kernel/module.c        Mon Nov 22 00:39:42 1999
@@ -397,7 +397,6 @@
                    && (mod->flags & MOD_AUTOCLEAN)
                    && (mod->flags & MOD_RUNNING)
                    && !(mod->flags & MOD_DELETED)
-                   && (mod->flags & MOD_USED_ONCE)
                    && !__MOD_IN_USE(mod)) {
                        if ((mod->flags & MOD_VISITED)
                            && !(mod->flags & MOD_JUST_FREED)) {






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