Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 07/08] scsi: remove bogus {get|put}_device() calls | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:15:55 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > So, basically, SCSI high-level object (scsi_disk) and > mid-level object (scsi_device) are reference counted by users, > not the requests they submit. Reference count cannot go zero > with active users and users cannot access the object once the > reference count reaches zero.
Actually, no. Unfortunately we still have some fire and forget APIs, so the contention that we always have an open refcounted descriptor isn't always true.
James
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