Re: PATCH: (as177) Add class_device_unregister_wait() and platform_device_unregister_wait() to the driver model core

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:22:41PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 
> All this is done without a module count, this means that
> pci_unregister_driver() cannot return before the last reference is gone.
> For network devices this is not that much of a problem, as they can be
> rather easily deconfigured automatically, but that's not that easy for
> mounted block devices, so one has to be damned careful when to call the
> exit function.

Um, not anymore.  I can yank out a mounted block device and watch the
scsi core recover just fine.  The need to make everything hotpluggable
has fixed up a lot of issues like this (as well as made more
problems...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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