Comment # 7 on bug 98276 from Johannes Hirte

(In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #6)
> You can also unbind the console before unloading the module.
> 
> sudo bash -c "echo 0 > /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon1/bind"

First time this resulted in a black screen with a panic, next time the system
hung, but reboot via SysReq Keys worked. Always happened on the unbind.