From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB-Storage module doesn't get removed when unplugged
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:37:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106668729105428@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-106664966123619@msgid-missing>
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:31:56PM +0200, reflex wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I plug in a memory stick the usb-storage module is loaded.
> If I unplug it, the module is NOT unloaded.
>
> Sometimes this becomes a problem if I plug in an sbp2 device
> (i.e. iPod) after unplugging the memory stick. /dev/sda is still
> "in use" by usb-storage but somehow the sbp2 module doesn't
> realize that and tries to assign sda to the plugged in device
> (the iPod here).
>
> This does not always happen! But I can always fix it by rmmoding
> usb-storage after the memory stick unplug.
>
> USB Modules should be unloaded after use!
No they should not.
What would happen if you unloaded the usb keyboard module after removing
only 1 of 2 USB keyboards in your system. Yeah, that would not work :)
We do not unload any modules based on hotplug events, sorry. It's
impossible to figure out if it should be done or not, so we do not do
it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-20 17:37 UTC|newest]
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2003-10-20 11:31 USB-Storage module doesn't get removed when unplugged reflex
2003-10-20 17:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-10-20 22:46 ` Greg KH
2003-10-21 17:52 ` reflex
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