Unloading USB driver while device is attached.

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Mon Jul 19 10:23:17 PDT 2004


On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Could someone investigate what's going on for the situation from the
> subject? This panic is trivial to reproduce:
>
> 	# kldload umass.ko
> 	<plug in your USB bar>
> 	# kldunload umass
> 	# kldload umass
> 	<panic>
>
> It is not umass related! I think this problem is in our USB implementation.

Theres a discussion going on in -arch about making kldunload a bit more
careful about cleaning up before detaching.  In the interim adding a
method that just vetos any unload request would prevent this from
occuring, but also preclude unloading the driver. :)

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