netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to classes

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimSqF4D4jPj-HzOjl1vxjf2T7YvlGdR6zcJZ9Pp@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:26:59 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to 
	classes

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 17:06, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 16:47 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> > So ... can we apply Eric's patch for now then?
>>
>> It might break other stuff we don't know about yet. Just like we did
>> not know about what things hwsim is doing here. :)
>
> True.
>
>> The hwsim issues are caused by the current hwsim code, by doing things
>> it should not do. Class devices of different classes must never be
>> stacked (the core should not allow that in the first place). Class
>> devices must never have a driver assigned behind its back. Also
>> device_create() should not be used for devices without a major/minor
>> (but that seems to be done in several other places too).
>
> Back when hwsim was written that would have been useful feedback to
> whoever did ... now, not so much.

Well, it still needs to be fixed. It will break again, when stuff
changes like now.

>> To fix the hwsim driver core interaction, core changes will probably
>> be needed to allow network modules to be removed while their devices
>> are active. That's something which seems not to work for bus devices
>> currently.
>
> Well it just needs to pin the module refcount from the bus and/or device
> struct. That seems not too hard?

How? If we ever get a reference of the module, it will not be able to
be unloaded while stuff is active, right?

Kay
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