From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: pcmcia ether drivers can't be unloaded]
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:54:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040728085419.773c4d94.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040728165024.A8475@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:50:24 +0100
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:19:29PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > I totally disagree. This is a bogus argument for two reasons:
>
> You may disagree, that is your option. However, facts are facts -
> this is how the PCMCIA layer currently works, and short of rewriting
> the whole damned thing it isn't going to change. Sorry.
Stephen offered a solution, moving this stray refcount into a toplevel
pcmcia bus type object. We are not constrained by how the PCMCIA layer
currently works, just as we were not constrained a year ago by how the
generic network device handling worked when it was totally broken in
this area. We just fixed it instead of whining.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-28 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <41068BEF.7010200@pobox.com>
2004-07-27 22:36 ` [Fwd: pcmcia ether drivers can't be unloaded] Russell King
2004-07-28 0:19 ` David S. Miller
2004-07-28 15:50 ` Russell King
2004-07-28 15:54 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-02 19:02 ` Russell King
2004-08-07 11:09 ` Russell King
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