On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, John Navil Joseph wrote:
>
> if it is not possible to remove these stale modules from user space then
> may be we can write a module which can do the same. any ideas on how to do
> this..?
>
The problem isnt user-space. The problem is that "zombie" modules (may)
have left the kernel data structures in an inconsistent state. There is no
way to clean up this mess unless you decide to keep track of all the
memory allocations, mem free()s, pointer allocations etc. that happen
within the kernel. And that itself IMHO it a *huge* task!
ciao,
Amit
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