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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


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