Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:29:44 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: (as177) Add class_device_unregister_wait() and platform_device_unregister_wait() to the driver model core |
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:22:41PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > > All this is done without a module count, this means that > pci_unregister_driver() cannot return before the last reference is gone. > For network devices this is not that much of a problem, as they can be > rather easily deconfigured automatically, but that's not that easy for > mounted block devices, so one has to be damned careful when to call the > exit function.
Um, not anymore. I can yank out a mounted block device and watch the scsi core recover just fine. The need to make everything hotpluggable has fixed up a lot of issues like this (as well as made more problems...)
thanks,
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