From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hinds Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:26:17 +0000 Subject: Re: Unloading drivers, start-up, shut-down and a rewrite (a problem) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:21:06AM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > That is, code the USB or PCI layers would increment/decrement > the counter when the binding was successfully achieved. No > changes to the device drivers needed, but having the kernel > maintain those counters would be safer than doing it in user mode. This is what PCMCIA does. -- Dave _______________________________________________ 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