Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:49:01 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, all. > > Agreed with the problem but I'm not very enthusiastic for adding > kobj->owner. How about the following? exit() routines will have to > do device_unregister_wait() instead of device_unregister(). On return > from it, it's guaranteed that all references to it are dropped and > ->release is finished. The caller is responsible for avoiding > deadlock, of course.
Oh, one more thing, with proper code audit, we can just make device_unregister() do the waiting instead of adding separate device_unregister_wait(). I think that will be a good step toward immediate-detach driver model.
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