Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:07:49 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: How can a loadable kernel module remove itself? |
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On Tue, 2003-11-18 10:45:57 -0500, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0311181036590.783-100000@ida.rowland.org>: > Say I've got a kernel module that decides its job is done, and it wants to > unload itself automatically. Is there any way to do that? Basically I'm > looking for the opposite of the request_module() function, except that > I've already got a pointer to the module in question, i.e., THIS_MODULE.
If the module's runtime is *really* limited (eg. I oftenly use very small modules to printk() me some bytes from some in-kernel data structures), then just do what you need to do in the function "registered" with module_init() and return with != 0...
MfG, JBG
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