Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 17:16:56 EST


Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > In the general reboot case yes it is a BIOS bug. In the general Linux
> > booting Linux case there is no BIOS involved.
>
> In that case yes I can see why you want to turn the bus masters off when you
> boot the new kernel

And in the general case I'd like to what rmmod does so that
the device is in a sane state so the Linux driver can handle it.

Very rarely does rmmod leave a device in a state where you cannot
run imsmod.

Eric

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