Re: Driverfs updates

jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:43:30 +0100 (BST)


> It seems to me the problem is in designing modules to unload, and saying
> "Then don't unload them" is not even a band-aid - it is willful
> ignorance. If there is a potential race condition unloading a module,
> then the module is BROKEN.

Agreed. Unloading is as fundamental as loading - especially as a lot of users load and unload modules as a, (bad), way to use two incompatible devices on one port. Once you introude a bloatule (I.E. module that can't be unloaded), that stops working. As more and more people start relying on the behavior, it gets to be more of a problem.

John.
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