On 17-Oct-00 Terry Lambert wrote:
> I guess I'm asking "What moron would want to intentionally disable
> system resource tracking?".
>
> It's OK for the driver to not care, I guess, if it doesn't want to
> allow you to unload it, and other evil things.
>
>
> I can maybe buy the legacy argument, but, frankly, and I said
> this when Poul and David first asked that the capability to
> track closes first went in, unless everyone plays by the same
> rules, no one benefits.
If you don't need 'per-open' instance data then getting notified of the final
close would be sufficient.
Also, if you only allow one open you don't need to track each close.
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