How to disable/remove usb driver from the kernel

[sam_nbr]

Can you please let me know how do i disable/remove the USB Host Controller driver from the kernel. I do not want any interrupts to be triggered because of the USB. Is there a way I can unhook the usb driver module from the kernel. Am a naive user of Linux...

root:/lib/modules/2.6.24.7-r1116/kernel/drivers$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 501 0 Jun 24 2009 base
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 501 0 Jun 24 2009 block
drwxr-xr-x 3 501 501 0 Jun 24 2009 media
drwxr-xr-x 3 501 501 0 Aug 14 2009 mmc
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 501 0 Jun 24 2009 scsi
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 501 0 Jun 24 2009 spi
drwxr-xr-x 3 501 501 0 Jun 24 2009 video

I read somewhere that you will find something like this[usb/storage/usb-storage.ko] inside the drivers directory mentioned above which can be used to remove but I could not find any..

Thanks for your time and help.

-Sam

[hazel]

You can "unhook" any separately compiled module from the kernel by using the rmmod command. Open a terminal and type rmmod usb-storage.

[sam_nbr]

How do I know whether the module is separately compiled or not..If not what would be the solution..Thanks in advance

[MikeTbob]

How do I know whether the module is separately compiled or not..If not what would be the solution..Thanks in advance

Look for the module by using the lsmod command. Or you can use more advanced options like cat and grep on the .config file in the kernel directory. If it's not compiled as a module then it's probably built into the kernel and you might have to recompile your kernel to remove it.