linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH] fix race condition between device_del and device

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:41:13 +0200
From:	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	EunTaik Lee <eun.taik.lee@...sung.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] fix race condition between device_del and device_add

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:54:54AM +0000, EunTaik Lee wrote:
> 
> >
> >The bus that the device is on should prevent this, why isn't that
> >working for you?  What type of device/bus do you see this problem on?
> 
> The device is a firmware class device on a virtual bus.

What kernel code is causing this?  Again, the bus should be preventing
this from happening, is the virtual bus code incorrect somehow?

> >> Signed-off-by: eun.taik.lee 
> >
> >We need a "real" name here, I don't think your name has '.' in it,
> >right?
> 
> Right. It should've been Eun Taik Lee.
> 
> >Your email client turned all tabs to spaces and made the patch unable to
> >be applied.
> 
> I think I pasted the patch on HTML mode and then switched to text mode.
> Below patch should be okay.

I can't take a patch like this, please resend it properly.

thanks,

greg k-h
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