From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:27442 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752408AbcGSHwl (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:52:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC 00/16] Make use of kref in media device, grab references as needed To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, shuahkh@osg.samsung.com, laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, hverkuil@xs4all.nl References: <1468535711-13836-1-git-send-email-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> <20160715071913.009908a1@recife.lan> <578DD673.2010601@linux.intel.com> From: Sakari Ailus Message-ID: <578DDC46.2060900@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:52:38 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <578DD673.2010601@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Sakari Ailus wrote: > I believe people are more familiar with the state of the code with the > reverts than without them. The first two reverted patches I don't really > have a problem with, but they depend on the third reverted patch which > is more problematic and they'll no longer be needed afterwards. To > refresh our memory: "media: fix media devnode ioctl/syscall and unregister race" is actually a part of the workaround as well: -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com