From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: [Fwd: pcmcia ether drivers can't be unloaded] Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:02:10 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040802200210.A9498@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <41068BEF.7010200@pobox.com> <20040727233614.B30782@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040727171929.17858c7b.davem@redhat.com> <20040728165024.A8475@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040728085419.773c4d94.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, greg@kroah.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040728085419.773c4d94.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:54:19AM -0700 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:54:19AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > 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. Sorry, I'm not the one whining here. I just have _ZERO_ time at the moment because I'm still in Canada and only have sporadic access to stuff. Sorry if this doesn't meet your requirements, but this is the best I can offer you at the moment. In short, my best and only answer is "tough, live with it until I can investigate." -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core