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SubjectRe: [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:03:01PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> The block layer holds on to a reference to a struct device which
> isn't refcounted (until I added it with my patch.) Hence struct
> gendisk structures have a completely independent lifetime and are
> only destroyed when all references to them are removed.

Yes, they are and that's intentional.

Can you explain WTF do you drop that reference so late and not in the
del_gendisk() time?
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