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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 07/08] scsi: remove bogus
	{get|put}_device() calls
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:15:55 -0600
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On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 	So, basically, SCSI high-level object (scsi_disk) and
> 	mid-level object (scsi_device) are reference counted by users,
> 	not the requests they submit.  Reference count cannot go zero
> 	with active users and users cannot access the object once the
> 	reference count reaches zero.

Actually, no.  Unfortunately we still have some fire and forget APIs, so
the contention that we always have an open refcounted descriptor isn't
always true.

James