Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:16:57 +0100 |
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Am Mittwoch, 7. März 2007 19:02 schrieb Linus Torvalds: > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > The problem also exists with unplugging devices. Drivers get no feedback > > to tell them when it is safe to free the data structures associated with > > an attribute. > > So you just pointed to *another* data structure that apparently violates > the "you MUST use refcounting" rule. > > What is it with you people? It's really simple. Data structures must be > refcounted if you can reach them two different ways. > > If you don't use refcounting, then you'd better make sure that the data > can be reached only one way (for example, by *not* exposing it for sysfs). > > It really *is* that simple. Read the CodingStyle rules.
Very well, there seems to be no clean way to avoid that work.
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