From: "Yury V. Umanets" <umka@namesys.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does the block layer prevent races between open() and unregister()?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:06:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078301208.3493.8.camel@firefly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0402272302570.4063-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 06:05, Alan Stern wrote:
> A classic race that all drivers for hot-unpluggable devices have to deal
> with is the race between open() and unregister() (or disconnect()).
>
> Does the block layer have any mechanism to prevent such races? Or does it
> rely on the lower-level drivers handling such things by themselves?
According to usb-skel driver, nobody cares about.
>
> Alan Stern
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-28 4:05 Does the block layer prevent races between open() and unregister()? Alan Stern
2004-03-03 8:06 ` Yury V. Umanets [this message]
2004-03-03 15:34 ` Alan Stern
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