Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:03:03 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] chardev: Increment cdev reference count when i_cdev references it |
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:55:43PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > That consequence looks broken, IMO. > Hum, it already behaves for block devices that way (and noone complained > - but admittedly block devices tied to strange modules are less common than > character devices). Also rmmod isn't that common IMO, but I see your point > that it's unintuitive behavior.
Umm... Since when? The last time I looked, bdev module refcounts were tied to struct gendisk, not to struct block_device.
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