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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:21:35AM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > > > > I am not very clear about how the first two behave. Still I can think > > of a solution within sysfs like this as Alen suggested. But again I am not > > very sure if this can be done properly without any races. But anyway I am > > trying. > > > > 1) backout my patch sysfs-pin-kobject.patch > > I think we need to do this now, as it is not a correct fix, and causes > more problems than good at this time. But the patch was correct. sysfs retains a pointer to the kobject, it should take a ref on it? > I suggest you try to fix the oops > you were seeing in either another way, or in a way that does not break > other things :) Didn't we demonstrate that the code which broke was already broken? And that it has other problems regardless of the kobject pinning fix, such as the userpace-holding-a-file-open-wedges-khubd problem? Worried that this is all heading in the wrong direction... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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