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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:21:11 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        lile@stdio.com (Larry Lile), peter@netplex.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I ... 
Message-ID:  <199812291821.LAA34761@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:10:52 %2B0100." <199812291610.RAA15484@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 
References:  <199812291610.RAA15484@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>  

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In message <199812291610.RAA15484@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Luigi Rizzo writes:
: you could look at how the pcmcia support for network cards is done.
: I seem to remember they leave some stuff resident but have a
: "not-present" flag to take care of the cases when the interface is
: removed.

I've looked into that.  The problem with doing that is that you can't
"reload" the driver.  pccardd appears to bring the old version of the
code over and over again.  It never removes the device.

Warner


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