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 <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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."
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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
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