On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:18:50PM -0500, Darin Strait said > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a i810e motherboard, PIII/866MHz/320MB, single 120 GB IDE udma4 disk, a > CD-RW and an SMC 10/100 NIC. I am using the onboard audio and video. > > I am running a stock debian kernel: > Linux kiyone 2.6.2-1-686 #1 Sat Feb 7 13:49:20 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux > > > My problem is the following message from boot time: > > Module piix cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in > include/linux/module.h:489 That's fine, it's not a problem unless you really want to unload it. > This seems to be true, since I can't modprobe -r to remove the piix module: > kiyone:/etc# lsmod | grep piix > ata_piix 8036 0 > libata 40928 1 ata_piix,[permanent] > piix 12672 1 [unsafe] > ide_core 160952 3 ide_disk,ide_detect,piix > > kiyone:/etc# modprobe -r piix > FATAL: Module piix is in use. > > How much of a problem is this Do you really want to remove it? Isn't it the module for your IDE controller? > and what do I do to fix it? AFAIK, it requires the ata_piix code in the kernel to be fixed. You're welcome to try :-) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: 64 Vauxhall Cross Medco FTS2000 industrial espionage condor
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