On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:14:03 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > But module load/unload does > > > > it does? > > > > looking at the code.... so far failing to find where. > > Interesting - it used to and there is code that still relies on that. I can't find that to be the case anymore though > > The more general problem of > > register_chrdev > open > do something > error > unload > whoops > > definitely needs looking at however. absolutely we used to have the same issue with networking devices, and there it ended up with a split "allocate" and "register" -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
