From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] embedded struct device Re: [patch] IDE driver model update
Date: 08 Oct 2002 23:51:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034117495.31448.25.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210081456480.16276-100000@cherise.pdx.osdl.net>
> > That's because normally pci_unregister_driver() or whatever is called in
> > cleanup_module(), but obviously to be able to call it the refcount has to
> > be zero already...
>
> That's true for drivers, but not for devices. Nonetheless, it's a big
> problem that I've hoped would magically go away. Of course it won't, but I
> don't have a solution for it off hand...
Is it actually cleanly solvable without sticking the refcounts in the
layer they belong not in driverfs ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-08 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-07 19:30 Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 19:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 19:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-11 23:06 ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-07 19:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 22:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-07 22:51 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 22:58 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-07 23:06 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 2:17 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 12:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-08 12:24 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-08 19:18 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-10-08 13:25 ` jbradford
2002-10-08 14:31 ` Ketil Froyn
2002-10-08 21:34 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-08 21:57 ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-08 15:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-10-08 18:43 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 20:47 ` [RFC] embedded struct device " Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 21:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 21:53 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-08 21:57 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 22:51 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-10-08 21:54 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 22:48 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-08 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 22:29 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 21:30 ` Greg KH
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