[openib-general] svn patches.

Wed Apr 28 16:29:40 PDT 2004

> It's up to the operator to make sure all userspace stuff is taken care
> of before powering down the pci card (unmounting filesystems, etc.)  So
> the driver doesn't have to worry about this.
> 
> Actually the 2.6 scsi layer has gotten a lot better at dropping a
> controller while things are still mounted, so it doesn't oops anymore :)
> 
> As for mmio accesses, I don't really know.  They should probably just
> fail as the memory isn't valid anymore.

A segfault to the offending process sounds appropriate to me.

Sysadmins are going to want tools like 'fuser' to be able to tell them
what processes have open /dev/whatever_ib_device

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