Re: why can't I remove a kernel module (or: what uses a given module)?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:58:24PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > You mean the "Used by" column? No, it's not used by any other module 
> > according to lsmod output.
> >
> > Any other methods of checking what uses /dev/sda*?
>
> There's a good chance that if it was loaded at system boot, hald or
> udev may be doing something with it.

This machine doesn't have hal; when I kill udevd still doesn't help.

Yes, something's using that drive, be it a program, a module (unlikely), 
or something that is compiled directly in the kernel (for example, 
md/raid1).
But what is it?

Kernel knows it, as it refuses to remove the module (via rmmod), but how 
to tell kernel to share this knowledge with me?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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