Re: kern/48018 (modunload gets confused with unloading buildin modules)

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/48018; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Sergio Lopez <slp%sinrega.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/48018 (modunload gets confused with unloading buildin modules)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:31:57 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:29:12PM +0000, Sergio Lopez wrote:
 > That's the expected behavior. Running modunload on a builtin module
 > just disables it. From modstat(8):
 > 
 >  REFS  Number of references held on the module.  Disabled builtin
 >        modules will show a count of -1 here.
 
 Oh i must have missed that! tnx
 
 AFAIR having a disabled kernel module won't allow a new version to be loaded
 from disk or is it? If not, wouldn't this be handy?