kldunload -f has no effect

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 16:54, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>> I need to 'kldunload -f drm' in order to go into suspend to ram
>> with my thinkpad (suspend works fine with dri disabled). 
>> Unfortunately, despite the claims of the manpage the '-f' flag
>> does not alter the behaviour of the kldunload tool.  
> 
> In my experience using -f will result in a kernel panic. And
> that's well documented in the manual page. I guess you are
> lucky it didn't work:) So, why don't you just reboot? and keep
> the module off your kernel(if that's an option).
> 
>> How do I get drm unloaded? 
> 
> The easy way, just reboot. Or the hard way, fix the kernel module!

What's the point of suspend if you have to reboot to resume?