On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:50:45AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:35:52AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > it's chockfull of races still > > Most drivers now days are refcounting and well behaved well... and then there is sysfs. > > > I strongly discourage any module removal without good reason; and there > > are very few such good reasons, the only reason I can think of is driver > > bugs. > > and USB and PCMCIA.... (although PCMCIA IDE has bugs still) how so? the 2.6 driver model is that drivers remain loaded and just get reactivated if the device comes back....
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