On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:50:45AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:35:52AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> it's chockfull of races still
Most drivers now days are refcounting and well behaved
well... and then there is sysfs.
> I strongly discourage any module removal without good reason; and there
> are very few such good reasons, the only reason I can think of is driver
> bugs.
and USB and PCMCIA.... (although PCMCIA IDE has bugs still)
how so? the 2.6 driver model is that drivers remain loaded and just get
reactivated if the device comes back....