ed, also pci_dev_get and pci_dev_put should be in most cases called to properly handle hotplug. This patch does exactly this thing -- increase refcount to let kernel know, that we are using this piece of HW just now. It affects moxa and rio char drivers. Cc: Acked-by: Amit Gud Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cap