On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:45:03PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 18. Juli 2003 18:36 schrieb Martin Diehl: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > > Yes sure. But do we really want people seeing the hcd reportedly unused to > > > > rmmod their hcd and thus trigger an unintended disconnect - with corrupted > > > > fs as a consequence? > > > > > > We cannot prevent people from unplugging devices, which has the same > > > consequences. So why would we make provisions to keep root from doing > > > one more foolish thing? > > > > Because - according to lsmod - the hcd is unused? > > There you have a point. Should driver core deal with such matters?
No, the driver core deals with device reference counts. Now it also handles module reference counts when a sysfs attribute is open. But in the end, this is a reference counting issue that the scsi people have a patch for. If any other USB driver causes an oops when the hcd is removed, then we need to fix that. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel