Re: Update to orinoco driver (2.4)

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 06:22:40 +0100


On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:30:18AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:37:06PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > +static void __exit exit_hermes(void)
> > > +{
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > module_init(init_hermes);
> > > +module_exit(exit_hermes);
> >
> > Please don't add exmpty functions without a reak good reason.
>
> And the real good reason would be that the module can't be unloaded
> without an exit function.

That braindamage fortunately is not true for 2.4 and still needs
fixing for 2.5.

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