linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] block2mtd: removing a device and typo fixes

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Message-ID: <chaz20080220165513.GU4539@artesyncp.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:13 +0000
From:	Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@...rson.com>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] block2mtd: removing a device and typo fixes

2008-02-20 17:42:27 +0100, Jörn Engel:
> On Wed, 20 February 2008 14:36:46 +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > 
> > At the moment, when we bind a mtd device to a block device, we
> > don't increase the refcount. When a mtdblock on a block2mtd, the
> > refcount is not increased either (the mtdblock's one is I
> > guess).
> 
> That is a bug then.
[...]

Well, given that there is no API to unbind a mtd to a block
device, otherwise, we would never be able to unload block2mtd.
So fare, unloading block2mtd was the only way to unbind a mtd
from a block device.

Cheers,
Stephane
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