Re: Forcible removal of modules

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:17:28 -0800 (PST), 
Thomas Hood <[e-mail]> wrote:
>My question is: Is there some better way of blocking 
>all open() calls to a particular device driver while
>processes using it are being killed off?

Not yet.  There have been some off list discussions about redoing the
module load/unload process to avoid races, as part of that we will get
forced module unregister followed by unload when the use count goes to
zero.  Probably 2.5 changes.