Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:43:40 -0500 (EST) | From | Alex Goddard <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release |
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, rihad wrote:
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> Does the devfs/udev /dev entry get removed when doing rmmod? I though > not. But since the module isn't there anymore, doing mount /dev/cdrom > /cdrom would give "No such device". Not a problem per se, but then > probably rmmod -a isn't as a wise thing to do with udev as it is with > devfs. Bad.
See past linux-kernel threads on how problematic module unloading is (and how insanely hard it'd be to fix those problems). You really shouldn't be using rmmod unless you're a developer as it is.
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