Re: [PATCH] (1/5) get rid of useless hashbin in irtty

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:11:31 -0700
Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:58:51PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:14:05 -0700
> > Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 	Curently driver do work properly (including SMP).
> > 
> > Users can hold onto procfs files after the driver
> > modules are unloaded.  For example:
> > 
> > rmmod eth0 </proc/sys/net/ipv4/eth0/whatever
> > 
> > If IRDA creates any procfs files for devices that are
> > registered, you have this problem too.
> > 
> > This is not fixable without first making sure every net driver in the
> > entire tree abides by a few rules, and that is what Stephen is doing.
> 
> 	No problem, it's just that with the total lack of testing of
> IrDA in 2.6.0, I'm a bit nervous, as always. Would it be possible for
> Stephen to use some real IrDA hardware so that he can double check
> what he is doing ?
> 	Have fun...

I have some, but haven't used it so far.
For the load/unload testing, it is possible to setup irtty (and irlan)
without real hardware.  So far, haven't had to change the hardware drivers.