From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Eric Kerin <eric@bootseg.com>
Cc: alexn@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.3 oops at kobject_unregister, alsa & aic7xxx
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:32:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040223233218.73e61a9e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077606462.3172.38.camel@opiate>
Eric Kerin <eric@bootseg.com> wrote:
>
> The AIC drivers are currently coded to unload (by returning -ENODEV from
> the init function) if no devices are found, so the exit function never
> gets called, leaving the stale entries.
Oh, OK, leaving the PCI driver registered.
> There's a 2nd patch in the above thread that changes those modules to
> stay loaded even if no devices are found, which Arjan V pointed out was
> the preferred way for drivers to work.
Sounds good. Do you have that patch handy?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1077546633.362.28.camel@boxen>
2004-02-24 0:07 ` 2.6.3 oops at kobject_unregister, alsa & aic7xxx Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 0:43 ` Alexander Nyberg
2004-02-24 6:05 ` Eric Kerin
2004-02-24 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 7:07 ` Eric Kerin
2004-02-24 7:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-24 7:54 ` Eric Kerin
2004-02-24 17:56 ` Justin T. Gibbs
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