Re: [linux-usb] USB usage count?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:50:59PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:

> > Things like cameras, disks, ethernet dongles, etc. are not always in use,
> > and we have to be sure that we're managing them properly.
> 
> Yes, this stuff has bothered me.  USB modules that are
> actually in use shouldn't be subject to automatic unloading
> the way they now seem to be.

By the way, now that I think about it - things are probably getting
worse with devfs, because you can't get a kmod request for a char device
that even doesn't have an devnode in /dev until the device is
registered.

Perhaps devfsd handles this - I haven't studied it too deeply yet.

In my opinion, sooner or later the automatic module loading system will
have to be rethought ...

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

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