Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 May 2009 22:17:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories. |
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On Wed, 27 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:49, James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > > > OK ... perhaps we have to wait a little harder: try this; it waits until > > all the targets have disappeared from visibility via an event. > > That seems to work fine here.
It's good for a short-term fix. For the longer term, I still think it's a mistake to wait for the sdevs to be released before deleting the target. It gives user programs the ability to block the host-removal thread indefinitely.
Alan Stern
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