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Subject: Re: panic after kldunload - stale device descriptions
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To answer myself:

Frank Behrens <frank@pinky.sax.de> wrote on 23 Aug 2005 19:43:

> I loaded my driver (kldload) and the device was probed and found in 
> ISA_PNP_PROBE. Then the driver was unloaded (kldunload) and I tried 
> to read the current device configuration. This gave me a
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

I could not reproduce the error. May be the driver did not release a 
resource, so it was unloaded, but the device was still present.

In that case there is no danger, because we can assume safely all 
driver will release all allocated resources.

Regards,
   Frank
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