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Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by fuj on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:46PM (#28855178)
Isn't this the case for every major OS? I know FreeBSD device drivers can be (un)loaded on-the-fly. Same for MacOS. I assume it's also possible in Linux(?)
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Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by kaladin-jasnah on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:33PM (#28859583)
It is. I believe you use

  modprobe -r kernel_module_name
to unload a kernel module and

  modprobe kernel_module_name
to load it.
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Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by Arnavion on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:33PM (#28859580)
Linux lets you disable dynamic modules. OpenBSD removed support for them some years ago.
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Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat by astrange on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:33AM (#28860829)
macOS doesn't let you load kexts anymore since it's less important with drivers moving to userspace.
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