Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754212Ab1BJJFX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:05:23 -0500 Received: from mx0.aculab.com ([213.249.233.131]:49405 "HELO mx0.aculab.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753180Ab1BJJFR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:05:17 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] misc: add CARMA DATA-FPGA Access Driver Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:02:47 -0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110210003935.GA6034@core.coreip.homeip.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PATCH 1/2] misc: add CARMA DATA-FPGA Access Driver Thread-Index: AcvIurmZ9BgTQ11VT8amBAn4Qe4jBgARmS6A From: "David Laight" To: "Dmitry Torokhov" , "Ira W. Snyder" Cc: , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 569 Lines: 19 > > I was completely unaware of that "feature". I hunch that many drivers > > are incapable of dealing with an unbind while they are still open. > > Hmm, maybe older drivers... Anythig hotpluggable (USB, PCI, etc) should > be in a better shape because they expect to be yanked at any time. Whim and prayer ??? David -- 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/