From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:14:31 -0800 Message-ID: <1140113671.3178.16.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> References: <20060212190520.244fcaec.akpm@osdl.org> <20060213203800.GC22441@kroah.com> <1139934883.14115.4.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1140054960.3037.5.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060216171200.GD29443@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1140112653.3178.9.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060216180939.GF29443@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060216180939.GF29443@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , "Brown, Len" , "David S. Miller" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Yu, Luming" , Ben Castricum , sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk, Helge Hafting , "Carlo E. Prelz" , Gerrit Bruchh?user , Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net, Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Patrizio Bassi , Bj?rn Nilsson , Andrey Borzenkov , "P. Christeas" , ghrt , jinhong hu , Andrew Vasquez , linux-scsi@vger.ker List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:09 +0000, Russell King wrote: > where scsi_release() is the function called by the device model on the > last put of a scsi device. > > I guess is more or less what you're trying to do invasively via the > driver model. Yes ... except I think more than just SCSI has the problem (and we actually have it in more than one release function) so it seems like a good candidate for a general abstraction. James