[Gllug] What does [permanent] mean in an lsmod listing?

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:26 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:58:24PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
[snip]
> > What does the "[permanent]" bit mean (apart from the obvious)?
> 
> The IDE modules were changed so that they can't be unloaded, because
> module unloading is very hard to get right (if you want to do it
> without causing memory leaks and crashes that is). 

Interesting.  Thank you.

How then I wonder does one decide which of the IDE modules is actually
doing the work?  I see no point in loading all the others, but hotplug
seems to sling them in regardless.

John

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