Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Nov 2014 14:46:11 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] chardev: Increment cdev reference count when i_cdev references it |
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently i_cdev reference to a character device isn't accounted in the > reference count of the character device. This then requires us to track > all references through a list of all inodes referencing a character > device which is somewhat clumsy and requires list_head in each inode in > the system. > > So make i_cdev a reference like any other.
So no rmmod for you until an inode of character device node you had closed a while ago finally gets evicted from icache? Or am I misreading you?
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