Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 May 2011 09:07:54 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: various vmbus review comments |
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> I must be missing something here. As I look at the block driver (and > this is indicative of other drivers as well); the exit routine - > blkvsc_drv_exit, first iterates through all the devices it manages > and invokes device_unregister() on each of the devices and then > invokes vmbus_child_driver_unregister() which is just a wrapper on > driver_unregister(). So, if I understand you correctly, you want the devices to > persist even if there is no driver bound to them. So, if I eliminated the code > that iterates over the devices and unregisters them, that should fix the problem > and I can do this without changing the vmbus core interfaces.
If that actually works go for it. But there's no way to know that without actually implementing and testing it.
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