Comments on: Reloading kernel extensions http://www.dikant.de/2008/02/12/reloading-kernel-extensions/ Personal blog of Peter Dikant Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:19:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: عمر ملقب بالثاني http://www.dikant.de/2008/02/12/reloading-kernel-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-3035 عمر ملقب بالثاني Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:05:23 +0000 http://www.dikant.de/2008/02/12/reloading-kernel-extensions/#comment-3035 You may first want to check if the kernel extension being unloaded has dependencies, in which case unload will fail. Use kextstat and look at the "linked against" column. Third-party kexts usually don't have dependencies but system kexts are tightly depend on one another. Take at least a glance at the <a href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/index.html#group_Section_8" title="documentation" rel="nofollow"> before monkeying around with kexts. PS Danke für die kürze aber sachdienliche Posten You may first want to check if the kernel extension being unloaded has dependencies, in which case unload will fail. Use kextstat and look at the “linked against” column.

Third-party kexts usually don’t have dependencies but system kexts are tightly depend on one another.

Take at least a glance at the before monkeying around with kexts.

PS Danke für die kürze aber sachdienliche Posten

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