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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Duncan Sands wrote:

> > The proper fix would be to have each HC driver keep track of how many
> > instances are allocated.  The module_exit routine must wait for that
> > number to drop to 0 before returning.
> 
> Is this how it is usually done?

I don't know -- but it's how I would do it.

Maybe Greg or Randy can tell us?

Alan Stern