| To: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] (1/5) get rid of useless hashbin in irtty |
| From: | Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:11:31 -0700 |
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:58:51PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:14:05 -0700
> Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Curently driver do work properly (including SMP).
>
> Users can hold onto procfs files after the driver
> modules are unloaded. For example:
>
> rmmod eth0 </proc/sys/net/ipv4/eth0/whatever
>
> If IRDA creates any procfs files for devices that are
> registered, you have this problem too.
>
> This is not fixable without first making sure every net driver in the
> entire tree abides by a few rules, and that is what Stephen is doing.
No problem, it's just that with the total lack of testing of
IrDA in 2.6.0, I'm a bit nervous, as always. Would it be possible for
Stephen to use some real IrDA hardware so that he can double check
what he is doing ?
Have fun...
Jean
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