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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:41:11 +0100
From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Reference counting of MMC host driver modules
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0100
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> 
> So, if somebody asked me to copy my ieee1394/sbp2 safeguard into
> firewire/fw-sbp2, I would reject that on the grounds that killing the
> connection to the FireWire disk is the *expected result* of
> # modprobe -r firewire-ohci

I have to agree with Stefan's reasoning here. The reference counting is
about protecting kernel integrity, not about saving the user's foot.

Rgds
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