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Message-ID: <4625169D.9020301@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:49:01 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
CC: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> Agreed with the problem but I'm not very enthusiastic for adding
> kobj->owner. How about the following? exit() routines will have to
> do device_unregister_wait() instead of device_unregister(). On return
> from it, it's guaranteed that all references to it are dropped and
> ->release is finished. The caller is responsible for avoiding
> deadlock, of course.
Oh, one more thing, with proper code audit, we can just make
device_unregister() do the waiting instead of adding separate
device_unregister_wait(). I think that will be a good step toward
immediate-detach driver model.
--
tejun
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