On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:40:06PM -0800, Usman S. Ansari wrote: > In this particular situation, I would like to do some cleanup, without > too much overhead. What is the "situation"? Why does the driver care about this? All other drivers do not, right? > What I mean, there could be a situation in which we will tell our > customer that "this senario can result in unpredictable results". What is the senario? > Therefore I do not want to go through (nor I have time) to make a > list, maintain a list, etc, but if such a list is already maintained > by the kernel, than I can quickly go and do cleanup It's already maintained by the kernel, and cleaned up by the kernel if userspace closes the device node, or the process goes away. Nothing special needs to be done in the driver. What kind of driver are you talking about? thanks, greg k-h -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
