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. 2) The problem exists even with module reference counts. If you "ifconfig eth0 down; rmmod 3c509" the problem can still occur. Returning from ->close() before the device is really taken down is a bug and is going to cause problems regardless of whether the netdev module refcount is there or not. - : 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
