> How can you be sure that the module doesn't leave accessed hardware (if it's
> a driver) in an unusable state, or, leaves some other rubbish behind?
You can't. But a module should at least reset *all* registers of a
hardware component to default values (say: a defined state) before
anything else.
johnny
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