On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:52:38 +0200 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.... I get oopses very easily when removing a CF card in a PCMCIA adapter (also with latest FC2 kernel). And a machine crash after some time if I remember correctly. This makes accessing CF basically useless/impossible with FC2. Thought this was well known or should I add it to bugzilla ? r.
