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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] correct module refcounting
Date: 31 Oct 2003 09:00:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1067612438.1782.11.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031031121841.A16828@infradead.org>

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 06:18, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> That would mean we can't rmmod a LLDD without first removing all device
> through sysfs, or did I get it completely wrong?

Yes, I was thinking the wrong way around.  I think we need to use the
scsi_get_device() scsi_put_device() to hold a reference to struct
scsi_device in more places than just ULD open/close.  However, obviously
we only need a reference to the module when it shouldn't be removed.


Perhaps all that's really necessary is something like splitting
scsi_device_get() into an __ version that does everything but the module
get.  Then we can use the __scsi_device_get() in the critical sections.

James








      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-31 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-28 21:46 [PATCH] correct module refcounting James Bottomley
2003-10-29  0:17 ` Mike Anderson
2003-10-29  0:42   ` James Bottomley
2003-10-29  1:46     ` Mike Anderson
2003-10-31 12:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-31 15:00   ` James Bottomley [this message]

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