From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: switch ide-proc to use the ide_key functionality
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:15:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817221525.GA29340@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040817120622.GF3204@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:06:22AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> I'll have a look at what occurs if we make the ->key functions ref count
> and add "put" functions. I think that can be made to work cleanly without
> changing the rest of the code to refcounts at the same time. It'll still need
> some locking because of the memset. We would still have keys but we'd
> refcount usage off them as a starting point.
Ok fixed this by using the cfg_sem. refcounting breaks the non refcounted
code and its assumptions (good bad or otherwise). I've dropped the locking
in in such a way as switching to refcounts later is easier.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-15 15:04 PATCH: switch ide-proc to use the ide_key functionality Alan Cox
2004-08-16 15:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 15:30 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 23:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 23:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 0:13 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 0:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 0:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 1:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 10:48 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 12:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 22:15 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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