Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c

Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16T22:23:15Z

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > In the general reboot case yes it is a BIOS bug. In the general Linux
> > booting Linux case there is no BIOS involved.
>
> In that case yes I can see why you want to turn the bus masters off when you
> boot the new kernel

And in the general case I'd like to what rmmod does so that
the device is in a sane state so the Linux driver can handle it.

Very rarely does rmmod leave a device in a state where you cannot
run imsmod.

Eric