From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [Fwd: pcmcia ether drivers can't be unloaded] Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:54:19 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040728085419.773c4d94.davem@redhat.com> References: <41068BEF.7010200@pobox.com> <20040727233614.B30782@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040727171929.17858c7b.davem@redhat.com> <20040728165024.A8475@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, greg@kroah.com Return-path: To: Russell King In-Reply-To: <20040728165024.A8475@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:50:24 +0100 Russell King 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.