From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750884AbVKCL61 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 06:58:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751289AbVKCL60 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 06:58:26 -0500 Received: from mail.ncipher.com ([82.108.130.24]:34035 "EHLO mail.ncipher.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884AbVKCL60 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 06:58:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4369FB5B.3050602@f0rmula.com> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:58:19 +0000 From: James Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Trouble unloading a module.. References: <43664B31.3000305@f0rmula.com> <1130919119.2826.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4368AD58.6050809@f0rmula.com> <1130935171.2826.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1130935171.2826.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Update: Just tried the driver with a 2.6.14 and it doesn't suffer the same problem. As it looks to be doing what is required to unregister the chrdev, I'm loath to suggest it, but could this be a bug in the 2.6.8 kernel? Just a thought, so please shoot me down if I'm completly wrong :) Cheers, James Arjan van de Ven wrote: >On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:13 +0000, James Hansen wrote: > > >>I was thinking that there may have been a common issue that would allow >>a driver oops the kernel if not unloaded properly. Obviously not. >> >>Thanks for any advice, it's much appreciated. >> >> > >static struct pci_device_id nfp_pci_tbl[] __devinitdata = { > >you probably don't want that __devinitdata there.... > > > > >. > > >