Unloading Drivers

Normally, the system automatically unloads device drivers when they are no longer in use. During development, it may be necessary to use modunload(1M) to unload the driver before installing a new version. In order for modunload(1M) to be successful, the device driver must not be active; there must be no outstanding references to the device, such as through open(2) or mmap(2).

Use modunload(1M) to unload a driver from the system:

# modunload -i module_id

In addition to being inactive, the driver must have working detach(9E) and _fini(9E) routines for modunload(1M) to succeed.

To unload all currently unloadable modules, specify module ID zero:

# modunload -i 0