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Old 12-11-2002, 04:37 AM   #1
Thymox
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Opposite to modprobe?


There's this lovely program called modprobe that takes all the heartache out of insmoding lots of crap... but what about when you want to rmmod stuff? Surely there should also be an anti-modprobe? Something that removes modules in their correct order. Too many times have I tried to rmmod something to find that it's still in use by another modules that is not in use!

Just a little rant!
 
Old 12-11-2002, 05:58 AM   #2
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No, don't think there is something like that. What you can do though is rmmod many modules at once.

rmmod mod1 mod2 mod3

Just repeat rmmoding that line until all are gone. This only works if modules are not in use by applications though.
 
Old 12-11-2002, 08:02 AM   #3
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How about modprobe -r?
 
Old 12-11-2002, 08:14 AM   #4
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That works sometimes. For me it usually doesn't...
 
Old 12-11-2002, 10:40 AM   #5
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Yeah, I know about these, but thanks anyway guys. Think about it, though... you could go through and insmod all the necessary modules in the order they are required to get, say, the SB Audigy working... or you could modprobe for it and they will sort themselves out. Now, since modules that depend on other modules will have reciprocal entries in the modules.dep file... surely it can't be that hard to write a program that takes a peek at your lsmod output (or even just takes a look at /proc/modules), find any modules that aren't being used and remove them, following through to their propendents. I know I could rmmod -r, and in fact that is what I do... repeatedly until all modules that are not used are removed, but that also removes modules that I didn't really mind being in there.

I know it's silly, but you would have thought that since the insmod and rmmod programs are opposites of one another, there would be an opposite of modprobe too.

Cheers anyway guys.
 
  


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