Description Enji Cooper 2014-07-29 23:18:07 UTC

The code in modevent_nop always returns EBUSY when one tries to unload a module. This doesn't necessarily make sense because it effectively wires the module into the kernel until it's rebooted, making it difficult for developers/testers/users to swap out kernel modules as need be:

 68 static int
 69 modevent_nop(module_t mod, int what, void *arg)
 70 {
 71
 72         switch(what) {
 73         case MOD_LOAD:
 74                 return (0);
 75         case MOD_UNLOAD:
 76                 return (EBUSY);
 77         default:
 78                 return (EOPNOTSUPP);
 79         }
 80 }

It would make more sense if it returned 0 when MOD_LOAD/MOD_UNLOAD events are passed through, like it used to before r132167, but this requires additional discussion.