On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Anyhow, my point is that removing a piece of hardware
> does not require that the corresponding module be unloaded
> immediately.
That's true, but when a piece of hardware is removed, you usually also
want to get rid of some data structures, but if the relevant functions are
not prepared to be called outside of module_exit, you have a huge problem.
bye, Roman
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