On Monday 09 May 2005 8:37 am, Alan Stern wrote: > As for the remains of previously-removed hardware -- I shouldn't think it > matters very much what anybody tries to do to a piece of hardware, once > that hardware has been removed from the system! Depends on the hardware. Maybe it's a silent failure (as with CardBus reads returning all ones); or a message passing error that the driver sees; or maybe the lack of handshake means a bus error gets generated, and the driver oopses. That last is unfriendly, enough so that I think nobody would design a "hotpluggable" bus where hardware behaves like that. - Dave
