Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268239AbUJORYU (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:24:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268236AbUJORXh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:23:37 -0400 Received: from ida.rowland.org ([192.131.102.52]:18948 "HELO ida.rowland.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268214AbUJORVs (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:21:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:21:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@ida.rowland.org To: Paul Fulghum cc: Laurent Riffard , USB development list , Kernel development list , Greg KH , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 : oops when rmmod uhci_hcd [was: 2.6.9-rc3-mm2 : oops...] In-Reply-To: <1097858939.2820.3.camel@deimos.microgate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 19 On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Paul Fulghum wrote: > There was a question in my mind about the hcd->description field. > Should it be unique for each device instance instead > of uniform for all device instances on a driver? As I understand it, the description field is just a human-readable string that indicates what sort of device the hcd is. It doesn't need to be unique. In fact, the kerneldoc for request_irq() (without the updates) says that the dev_id value must be unique but says nothing about the devname. Alan Stern - 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/