From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplug remove vs. device driver close
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 01:40:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603014004.GA16092@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040602181455.C17544@forte.austin.ibm.com>
Hi,
> > We are hitting a situation where we are hot-plug removing a pci card
> > before closing the device driver. This seems to lead to kernel
> > memory leaks if not outright crashes. I'm trying to understand what
> > the correct solution to this is supposed to be.
>
> To paraphrase from the PCI Hotplug spec, "DO NOT DO THAT!"
How do you currently guarantee this on cardbus?
Anton
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-03 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 23:14 hotplug remove vs. device driver close linas
2004-06-02 23:28 ` Greg KH
2004-06-03 1:40 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2004-06-03 16:20 ` Greg KH
2004-06-03 18:50 ` linas
2004-06-03 19:02 ` Greg KH
2004-06-03 19:23 ` Don Fry
2004-06-03 19:28 ` Greg KH
2004-06-03 19:34 ` linas
2004-06-03 19:39 ` linas
2004-06-03 20:02 ` Don Fry
2004-06-03 20:39 ` Greg KH
2004-06-03 22:25 ` linas
2004-06-04 3:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-04 16:24 ` Greg KH
2004-06-04 17:26 ` linas
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