On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
>
> "ide_unregister" is only called if you are physically removing the
> controller. If PNP is going to permit physical removal when the OS is
> HOT, it may be justified. This can make a "hole" in the rest of the
> driver an generate an OOPS. IDE-CS has alway insured the ordering was
> last.
>
> I need to thinks some more about it first.
When I have multiple PCMCIA cards with CompactFlash cards mounted, could
this result in a hole if I umount and remove them in the wrong order? I
haven't gotten it working with 2.5, but I do mount several with 2.4, and
presumably will with 2.5 when I figure it out.
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