Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:31:32 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers |
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > I'm with Dmitry; the whole thing becomes much, much simpler if we put back > > your patch and prevent sysfs access after unregistering an attribute > > file. No API changes are needed, no driver changes are needed, no radical > > core changes are needed,... All we would have to do is fix the one SCSI > > method to make it use a workqueue. > > Try.
I did. Didn't you see this message from Saturday:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117355959020831&w=2
I sent it to Linus as well as to all of you. No replies received so far from anybody.
> I don't like reverting my own code. But I predict he'll tell you that a > driver's bond with a device should be represented in a data structure > that is to be refcounted.
:-)
Alan Stern
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