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

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:11:28 -0700

Antoine Reid <linux@jonction.net> writes:
>hmmm didn't the old kerneld remove the modules that had a count=0 for a period
>of time, rather that just periodically remove the modules?

It appears to take two iterations of "rmmod -a" (or the old
kmod unload daemon) with no use of the module in between to actually
unload the module, which I believe has to do with the MOD_VISITED flag.
Anyhow, whatever the behavior is, it is EXACTLY THE SAME with "rmmod -a"
as with the unloading part of the kmod daemon. In both methods, the
code that does the work is the same one line.

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