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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik),
	torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
	andersg@0x63.nu (Anders Gustafsson),
	arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c
Date: 16 Mar 2002 15:16:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d6y4xinb.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16mMer-0007Q4-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16mMer-0007Q4-00@the-village.bc.nu>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-16  0:57 [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c Anders Gustafsson
2002-03-16  1:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16  2:25   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16  7:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16  7:51       ` Keith Owens
2002-03-16  8:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16  9:00           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16  9:50           ` Keith Owens
2002-03-25 19:15           ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16  8:51       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 17:35         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 17:31           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-25 19:19           ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16  9:40       ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-22 15:47         ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-16 10:32       ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-16 19:27     ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 21:00       ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 22:03         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 22:28           ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 22:16             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-03-16 22:26             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 23:00               ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 23:15               ` Dave Jones
2002-03-21 15:12                 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-25 19:02     ` Patrick Mochel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-24 23:36 Alexander Stohr

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