Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:34:15 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] unload Audio drivers while playback stream is active case kernel crash |
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 02:01:33PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Mark Brown wrote:
> > > Above all, disallowing the module unload while using is the common > > > behavior of any other drivers. Why do we have to be a rebel against > > > all civil manner? :)
> > That's not true for everything
> Hmm, which driver does behave so intentionally? I'm interested in the > supposed reason behind it.
Relatively few of the subsystems in drivers have references to module_get().
> > and for ASoC I'd tend to assume that the > > user knows what they're doing and has a good reason for it; it's > > certainly something that can be helpful in development.
> The module unload is never considered to be equivalent with hot > unplug It's more than that.
I'm not sure that's the case from a user perspective. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |