From: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: add .remove_dev hook to put device
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:46:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500782F8.1060208@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAQ0ZWSmKPUEB380H9ftL-VXYQywwedQRweWqqAi1emhp2g_cA@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/18/2012 06:23 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On 19 July 2012 07:23, John Stultz <johnstul@us.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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-04 16:13 [PATCH] alarmtimer: add .remove_dev hook to put device Shawn Guo
2012-07-11 3:46 ` Shawn Guo
2012-07-11 4:43 ` John Stultz
2012-07-18 23:16 ` John Stultz
2012-07-18 23:23 ` John Stultz
2012-07-19 1:23 ` Shawn Guo
2012-07-19 3:46 ` John Stultz [this message]
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