On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Der Herr Hofrat wrote:

> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Norm Dresner wrote:
> >
> > > The initial Segmentation Fault is undoubtedly due to some
> > > unexpected operation(s) in your own module.  Once that
> > > happens during removal, the module is still in the kernel
> > > and in the state "TERMINATING" (or "REMOVING" or something
> > > similar).  If it is in this state, it can't be removed
> > > because its already being removed (at least the kernel
> > > thinks so) and you can't remove the rtl_XXX modules because
> > > they still depend on you module.
> > >
> > > Baring some heroic measures I won't even begin to describe
> > > because they involve hand-modifying several kernel
> > > structures, the only solutions to this dilemma are:
> >
> > Haha that's really funny actually.. hahaha.  It's true.. there's not much
> > you can do, except MAYBE changing the state of the module and it's use
> > count to 0 (via writing another custom module to do this..
>
> in the state "deleted" the module usage count is allready 0 no need to
> decrement it - but it has not been removed from the modules list - and
> that I guess will not be posible without a reboot. ( or has anybody released
> kvi to directly edit the kernels module list :)

It's possible to edit the module list.  Probably not even that hard to
do.. if you really want I can write up a hack to do it  :).

-Calin

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