From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] unloading drivers and usage counters
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:27:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98014480102154@msgid-missing> (raw)
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:12:14PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Not increasing the module usage counters on connect seems to be the wrong
> strategy. The desire to keep the modules unloadable has come back to bite us
> into our behind.
> If the usage counters were increased for each connected device unloading would
> come natural. A patch to disconnect drivers by an ioctl has been posted. It
> would allow forced unload.
Which drivers have this problem? Most of them do increment on open, and
decrement on close (with the exception of the HID drivers).
thanks,
greg k-h
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