Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 May 2009 13:35:31 +0200 | From | Hannes Reinecke <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories. |
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Hi all,
Alan Stern wrote: > 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. > Quite so. We should rather see to have the reference counting fixed properly, than this would go away automatically.
So I just have to look for someone to fix my iSCSI bugs, than I could revamp my patchset ...
Sigh.
Cheers,
Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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