On Tue, 2 May 2006, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Tue, 02 May 2006 17:36:09 -0700, Randy Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >   This problem was found while executing a "reboot" command with
> > a USB floppy drive or a USB hard drive mounted. The hotplug scripts
> > were unloading the ehci_hcd module before unmounting the drives.
> > This resulted in I/O errors to the drives. I was surprised to find
> > that even though USB drives were mounted using the ehci_hcd module,
> > there were no reference counts present to prevent unloading the
> > module while it is in use by the USB drives.
> 
> This is not news. Just build ehci-hcd statically if your userland
> is broken and outside of your control.

Indeed.  There's not much point in preventing people from removing the HCD 
module when they can physically unplug the USB cable at any time.

Alan Stern



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