Messages in this thread | | | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390 (8/10): zfcp fixes | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:57:18 +0200 |
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Hi Greg,
>> I'll ask because the zfcp patches are still pending and I want to get this >> issue resolved before the next try to get them integrated. >I think you need to talk to the scsi people, as kfree() should _never_ >need to be set as the release function. There's something just wrong >with the design if that is necessary.
Actually this issue is not SCSI related, but a generic problem that one can run into when fiddling around with modules / module unloading.
This was already discussed elsewhere. Please have a look here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/67421/ (paragraph "Module unloading in a reference counted world")
and here for the whole thread:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.2/1832.html (just saw that you participated there :)
I would be more than happy to have a nice release function for the zfcp generated objects, but I don't think this is currently possible without having the potential problem to run into an Oops after module unloading.
Heiko
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