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Re: Module piix cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage



On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:18:50PM -0500, Darin Strait said
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> 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.
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> 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
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> My problem is the following message from boot time:
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> 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
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> kiyone:/etc# modprobe -r piix
> FATAL: Module piix is in use.
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> 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 :-)

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