Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 : oops when rmmod uhci_hcd [was: 2.6.9-rc3-mm2: oops...]

[Alan Stern]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Paul Fulghum wrote:

> There was a question in my mind about the hcd->description field.
> Should it be unique for each device instance instead
> of uniform for all device instances on a driver?

As I understand it, the description field is just a human-readable string
that indicates what sort of device the hcd is.  It doesn't need to be
unique.  In fact, the kerneldoc for request_irq() (without the updates)
says that the dev_id value must be unique but says nothing about the
devname.

Alan Stern

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