In earlier releases of RHL I used a cron job to periodically remove unused modules ("rmmod -as"). Now it appears that rmmod no longer does this, not does modprobe have a switch to remove unused modules.
Are unused kernel modules automatically removed now? If not, how does one remove modules that are no longer in use?
Thanks.
man modprobe
" -r --remove
This option causes modprobe to remove, rather than insert a module. If the modules it depends on are also unused, modprobe will try to remove them, too. Unlike insertion, more than one module can be specified on the command line (it does not make sense to specify module parameters when removing modules).
There is usually no reason to remove modules, but some buggy modules require it. Your kernel may not support removal of modules.
-- jeremy
