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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	greg@kroah.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: bug 2400
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:52:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404060852.34169.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081214360.1756.330.camel@mulgrave>


> The point is that all the disconnection event does is inform a subsystem
> that the entity represented by the other object has gone.  What it
> chooses to do with the information is up to it.  It could set it's own
> connected object to degraded, never use the other object again and drop
> the reference.  Or, it could simply ignore the indication and continue
> to use the other object (even though it will return errors for every
> operation).

Pure refcounting can never protect you against races with freeing objects.
The counters themselves must be protected. Try as you might you need
locks for that and rules on how this locks are to be used.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-06  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 21:15 bug 2400 Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 21:52 ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-01 22:08   ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 22:48     ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-01 22:40   ` James Bottomley
2004-04-01 22:53     ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-01 23:07 ` Matthew Dharm
2004-04-01 23:32 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02  0:29   ` Steven Dake
2004-04-02  8:43   ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-02 15:57     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 16:45       ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-02 17:05         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 17:44           ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-02 18:13             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 23:40               ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-03  0:25                 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-04  1:40                   ` Alan Stern
2004-04-04 15:23                     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-04 16:46                       ` Alan Stern
2004-04-04 17:04                         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05  3:17                           ` Alan Stern
2004-04-05 14:59                             ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-05 21:27                             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06 14:00                               ` Alan Stern
2004-04-05 22:10                             ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-06 14:10                               ` Alan Stern
2004-04-08 14:09                               ` Alan Stern
2004-04-08 16:24                                 ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-08 18:33                                   ` Alan Stern
2004-04-08 19:44                                     ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-05 13:30                           ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2004-04-04 18:16                       ` David Brownell
2004-04-04 18:42                         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05  3:54                           ` David Brownell
2004-04-05 21:44                             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05 23:23                               ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2004-04-06  1:19                                 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06  6:52                                   ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-04-06 14:03                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-07  9:19                                       ` Oliver.Neukum
2004-04-06 15:10                                   ` David Brownell
2004-04-06 15:47                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06 16:16                                       ` David Brownell
2004-04-06 16:55                                       ` Alan Stern
2004-04-06 17:13                                         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 23:36   ` James Bottomley
2004-04-03  0:11     ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-03  0:16       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05  4:33     ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-05 14:09       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05 21:07       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06  9:22         ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-06 13:56           ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06 14:04             ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-06 14:09               ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 23:06         ` Greg KH
2004-04-09 11:28           ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05 14:03     ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-05 21:08       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06  9:22         ` Jens Axboe

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