> I must be missing something here. As I look at the block driver (and > this is indicative of other drivers as well); the exit routine - > blkvsc_drv_exit, first iterates through all the devices it manages > and invokes device_unregister() on each of the devices and then > invokes vmbus_child_driver_unregister() which is just a wrapper on > driver_unregister(). So, if I understand you correctly, you want the devices to > persist even if there is no driver bound to them. So, if I eliminated the code > that iterates over the devices and unregisters them, that should fix the problem > and I can do this without changing the vmbus core interfaces. If that actually works go for it. But there's no way to know that without actually implementing and testing it. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel