Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:32:18 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.3 oops at kobject_unregister, alsa & aic7xxx |
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Eric Kerin <eric@bootseg.com> wrote: > > The AIC drivers are currently coded to unload (by returning -ENODEV from > the init function) if no devices are found, so the exit function never > gets called, leaving the stale entries.
Oh, OK, leaving the PCI driver registered.
> There's a 2nd patch in the above thread that changes those modules to > stay loaded even if no devices are found, which Arjan V pointed out was > the preferred way for drivers to work.
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