[Openswan Users] - Building module saga (was: kernel panic )

[mcr at xelerance.com]

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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> writes:
    Paul> yes, unloading klips causes this failure. I thought we removed
    Paul> unloading the module from cvs. Are you running a fresh cvs
    Paul> checkout or could this tree be a few weeks old?

    >> No, we did not remove unloading. It works relatively fine on 2.4.
    >> Unloading on 2.6 may not work. Neither I nor Linus recommends
    >> enabling module unloading on 2.6.

    Paul> We did: from _realsetup:

    Paul>         #lsmod 2>&1 | grep "^ipsec" > /dev/null && rmmod
    Paul> ipsec'

  Ah, okay. 
  The code to permit 2.4 ipsec.o to unload is still there.

    Paul> A testcase should be written to ensure restarting without a
    Paul> rmmod/modprobe of klips does not leave a lingering state
    Paul> around.

  ipsec eroute --clear, etc. should deal with that, but you are right,
we should test it better.

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