>Date: Wed, 13 Nov 96 00:07:23 -0500 (EST)
>From: woods@kuma.web.net (Greg A. Woods)

>Which reminds me.  I wonder if a serial driver with locks, written as an
>LKM, could be successfully reset by dumping and re-loading it....

Nope.  Any properly-written LKMable driver should return EBUSY and
refuse to unload if any instances are open.
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