Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267772AbUJGTbM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:31:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267760AbUJGT3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:29:17 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:7552 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267918AbUJGT1k (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:27:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:27:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Stephen Hemminger cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Probable module bug in linux-2.6.5-1.358 In-Reply-To: <1097175903.29576.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1097175903.29576.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 25 On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Stephen Hemminger wrote: [SNIPPED...] > If you can reproduce the same problem with some GPL version of > standalone (even dummy) code, then come back and see us sometime. > Best I can see in the sources, the only place cd_forget() (for removing a character device) is called is from clear_inode() in inode.c. This is never called by unregister_chrdev(). Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.5-1.358-noreg on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/