linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: add .remove

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Message-ID: <500782F8.1060208@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:46:00 -0700
From:	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: add .remove_dev hook to put device

On 07/18/2012 06:23 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On 19 July 2012 07:23, John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com> wrote:
>> Actually, this change opens up a bunch of other races, as any caller of
>> alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() could have the rtcdevice removed under it.
>>
>> We'll need to have proper reference counting w/ get/put calls, probably also
>> adding a alarmtimer_put_rtcdev() interface.
>>
>> So for now I'm dropping this from my tree.  Do you think you might be able
>> to take another stab at this?
>>
> No.  You can take the patch as a bug report and fix it yourself in the
> best way you can think of :)
Ok. I'll try to find some time to do that.

Thanks!
-john

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