Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:11:26 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource Message-ID: <3925E63E.EF415CFF@bellatlantic.net> References: <20000520013751.A5852@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000520014352.B5947@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake Alexander Langer (alex@big.endian.de): > > > If so, I'm going to write patches. > > ... for almost every driver in the tree. > > Hmm. EITHER almost all people never unloaded their driver, or I still > understood wide parts wrong. > > I grepped through /sys now and only 10% of the drivers save the rid. > > Strange. Enlighten me, please. .-9 If a driver was written with expectation that it will be always compiled in the kernel (as opposed to being loaded as a module) then it never gets unloaded. And many drivers were written before the loadable modules appeared. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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