From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.35] mtd: blktrans: Move device and module ref-counting back to open/release
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:30:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284971403.2286.45.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinqy+hYrj5WN=4QEbPu+8F_HFs+rrb35TThoBRm@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 16:34 -0700, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ben Hutchings
> <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:
> > commit 048d87199566663e4edc4880df3703c04bcf41d9 "mtd: blktrans: Hotplug
> > fixes" causes the MTD and the MTD driver module's ref-counts to be
> > bumped for each block device that is created, whether or not it's
> > actually in use.
> >
> > This means that before removing an MTD or driver module one must first
> > remove all the associated block devices. But the block devices will
> > be removed only when the MTDs themselves are removed, which is no
> > longer possible.
>
> Just updated to 2.6.36-rc3 and noticed a related issue. Configuration is:
>
> CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y
> CONFIG_MTD_BLKDEVS=y
> CONFIG_MTD_UBI_GLUEBI=y
Would you please check if Maxim's patch fixes this:
[PATCH V2] MTD: blktrans: Final version of hotplug support
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-20 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-14 17:27 mtd: blktrans: Hotplug fixes Ben Hutchings
2010-07-22 17:44 ` [PATCH 2.6.35] mtd: blktrans: Move device and module ref-counting back to open/release Ben Hutchings
2010-07-24 16:07 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-07-24 17:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-25 7:41 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-07-27 17:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-05 23:34 ` Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-07 10:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-07 20:54 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-09-20 8:30 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-09-20 21:47 ` Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-23 21:14 ` Maxim Levitsky
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