linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism

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Message-ID: <20070420110411.0ad70a13@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:04:11 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	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

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:49:11 +0200,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:20:51 -0400 (EDT),
> Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> > The patch below, applied on top of Cornelia's changes plus the 
> > kobject_init() patch I posted earlier, actually seems to work.  And it 
> > prevents an oops which I was able to trigger without it.
> 
> Looks nice at first glance. I'll try to test it a bit.

OK, I've tested this a bit (with a silly dummy driver and zfcp with
hacked-back-in unload support) and I haven't encountered any problems
so far. So I second the seems-to-work statement :)
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