Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release

[Alex Goddard]

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.

-- 
Alex Goddard
agoddard at purdue dot edu
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