Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > Ok, so what is the problem then ? Why do we have to wait at all ? Why > not just unplug/replug right away ?
We'd have to be absolutely certain that the driver could not possibly take another interrupt or try to access the device on behalf of the old instance of the device by the time it returned from the remove function. I'm not sure I'd trust most drivers that far... Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
