Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 30 Jul 2003 15:40:18 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 21:33, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I guess kudzu could simply do lots of I/O ops directly on the floppy > > hardware to detect it without loading drivers but thats pretty fugly. > > Agreed that'd be kinda silly. But I was "educated" earlier that driver > loading shouldn't fail just because hardware is missing, due to hotplug. > > Is this wrong?
On systems without hotplug, on not hotpluggable devices and in a few other cases - yes.
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