Re: [PATCH 1/2] md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed.

[Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Can we then make gendisk hold owner module till it gets released?  It
> would be much nicer to write code to if we can keep the regular object
> reference counting across module boundaries and being able to taking
> down a module while devices are active isn't a too important
> requirement.  For vast majoerity (ide, scsi, md) one way or the other
> doesn't even matter at all.

If always holding reference is too much of a change, we can do

	if (gendisk->fops->disk_release) {
		__module_get(gendisk->fops->owner);
		gendisk->fops->disk_release(gendisk);
		module_put(gendisk->fops->owner);
	}

So that both parties - drivers which can happily unregister devices
during exit and drivers which want to do reference counting across
module boundaries - can be happy.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun