From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: PCI driver module unload race?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:07:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303111707.09119.oliver@neukum.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303110902010.1003-100000@localhost.localdomain>
> This means the module refcount must remain at 0, even after it's bound to
> devices. Changing this would require a change in visible behavior, and
> require an extra step by a user to disconnect the driver before they
> unload the module.
Yes, that would mean changing behaviour. On the other hand, we require
new module utilities for 2.6 anyway, so why not?
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-11 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-08 10:47 Russell King
2003-03-08 19:12 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:47 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-08 19:51 ` Greg KH
2003-03-09 2:33 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-08 20:03 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 20:09 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 20:21 ` Greg KH
2003-03-10 21:44 ` Greg KH
2003-03-10 23:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-10 23:51 ` Greg KH
2003-03-11 1:04 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-11 1:15 ` Greg KH
2003-03-11 9:00 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-11 15:06 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-11 16:07 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2003-03-16 13:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-03-11 11:05 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-11 15:27 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-11 20:09 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-11 19:15 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-12 2:28 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-16 13:05 ` Rusty Russell
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