usbatm : modprobe & rmmod

[matthieu castet]

Hi Roman,

Roman Kagan wrote:
>   Hi Matthieu,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:49 +0100, matthieu castet wrote: 
> 
>>Well I would done it in disconnect : the urb are initialized in probe, 
>>so in the init function from the usb layer, so i would remove it in the 
>>cleaning function from usb layer : disconnect.
>>For me cleanup is about things done in cxacru_heavy_init.
> 
> 
> No, they are unrelated.  The cleanup function is a callback registered
> with the refcounting mechanism to be called when the last reference to
> the instance is dropped.  The references can live beyond disconnect
> (e.g. while the ATM device has open connections) and so should the
> instance.
Well, I still don't understand : how the urb could be used if the device 
is removed ?
The only things I agree that should be here is kfree(instance);
And it could be done in usbatm, if usbatm had kmalloc it.


Cheers,

Matthieu