On Tue 19 August 2003 22:01, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:03:09 +0200 > > Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it> wrote: > > > Aparently, the ->close() method of the 3c509.c driver returns > > > before the chip is truly done shutting down. How to do this > > > correctly is hardware specific, and therefore the in order to > > > code the fix you'll need to understand how the 3c509 chip works. > > > > that's why IMHO reintroducing module usage count on net devs should be > > better... there are too many broken net device drivers to fix... > > This is false, for two reasons: > > 1) This driver is the only one we know of that has said > problem. IIRC the same problem occours with 8139cp [on 2.6.0-test2] !!! -- Daniele. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
