Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:49:01 +0100 |
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Am Montag, 12. März 2007 20:31 schrieb Alan Stern: > 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
Yes. In this case, silence is partial agreement. However, convincing me is futile if Linus rejects the approach.
I wrote the original patch. But this problem must be solved. If the first attempt is rejected, I'll try another.
> 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. > > :-)
Coming to think about it, he might be right there.
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