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From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: oops with USB Storage on 2.6.14
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:33:06 -0800
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:08:43PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 15:02 -0500, goggin, edward wrote:
> > Thanks!  Here's a better one.
> 
> It's line wrapped, but I fixed that up.

What code path triggered this?

I mean we get a ref to the sdev in the upper level driver opens, scan, and
sd flush. So where are we not getting a ref? 

Shouldn't the get be done at a higher level?

-- Patrick Mansfield