On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:18:44AM +0000, Miguel A Paraz wrote:
> I would've thought that a 'umount' would 'sync' as well.
> 
> I can't reproduce the errors right now, but they were pertaining to the 
> device numbers. Even 'umount' works at the filesystem level. I think to 
> be safe, we need some system call that tells the kernel that the device is 
> gone.
> 
> (Maybe in kernel 2.6?)

Maybe there's a command to do that, called 'rmmod'. :) If you unload the
driver, then there should be nothing left inside the Linux that thinks
the device still exists.

Actually, I think that perhaps the USB subsystem should have been
constructed a bit more closely approximating that of the PCMCIA/Cardbus
subsystem, with notions of a device being inserted, disconnecting a
device, and so on.

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