On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 20:03, Todd Lyons wrote: > See that usage count of "1" for ide-cs? Until you get that to go to > "0", you are never going to be able to unload that module.
yup. did some module research here. i think it has to do with the ide-floppy driver being counted, but cannot be removed due to the ide-floppy being compiled into the kernel. ide-cs.c is probabely lacking something here. Sadly, I > don't know of a method other than a reboot to clear that type of error. ditto. > The key here is what sequence of events occurred to make it such that it > has a usage count of 1 but nothing claiming to be depending on it. Even > stranger is that the usage count of ds *did* get decremented to zero, > but it still shows that it's dependent on ide-cs. I'd suspect something > funky happened with supermount, but that's purely a guess. Trying to > reproduce the problem will go a long way towards identifing the root > cause. nah. i manually mounted the /dev/hdc1 /mnt/disk. ide-floppy, nor any other related modules to the pcmcia bus are mounted. i believe that your first guess what right on the money. i'll have another look over ide-cs.c to see what's up. oh, this brings back memories with the ehci-hcd.o module as well. similar scenario that it was being unloaded automatically via the pcmcia script but it *could be* manually. turned-out, that the ehci-hcd code is correct but it resorted to a *known bug* in pcmcia/cardbus code. eh, just purely guessing, but this may all fall back to the pcmcia/cardbus developement. ok. close thread. i'm started to ramble and speculate again ;-) -- Roger ----- Verify my pgp/gnupg signature on my HomePage: http://www.alltel.net/~rogerx/about/index.html
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