On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 05:15:45PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > > Good point, but it's worse than that: when MAC0 is unbound, it will > > > > > unregister the MDIO bus and destroy all PHY devices. These are not > > > > > refcounted so they will literally go from under MAC1. Not sure how > > > > > this can be dealt with? > > > > > > > > unbinding is not a normal operation. So i would just live with it, and > > > > if root decides to shoot herself in the foot, that is her choice. > > > > > > > > > > I disagree. Unbinding is very much a normal operation. > > What do you use it for? > > I don't think i've ever manually done it. Maybe as part of a script to > unbind the FTDI driver from an FTDI device in order to use user space > tools to program the EEPROM? But that is about it. > > I actually expect many unbind operations are broken because it is very > rarely used. rmmod! Particularly useful during driver development, I tend to use it extensively - and it has the advantage of testing those unbind paths! -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 80Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!
