From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 01:40:04 +0000 Subject: Re: hotplug remove vs. device driver close Message-Id: <20040603014004.GA16092@krispykreme> List-Id: References: <20040602181455.C17544@forte.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20040602181455.C17544@forte.austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel