On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 01:32:26PM +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi, > > in a recent discussion [1] with Phil Elwell pointed out that the VPU > firmware of the Raspberry Pi isn't aware of an unload of the vchiq > kernel module after a successful registration. Why not fix that to allow the module to unload properly? > So my question is there a proper way to prevent a platform driver from unloading? Nope, you can always forcefully unload a driver from a device, and that's a good thing :) But, it's not a normal operation at all, nothing should ever unbind/unload unless you are developer working on the kernel. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
