From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com, Eric.Moore@lsil.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: qla2300 & mptscsih refcount, or lack thereof
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:50:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051230235030.GX18439@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
Folks,
I've run into an interesting problem. The qla2300 and
mptspi drivers don't get refcounted for active users, but they are
absolutely required. Thus, you can do, eg, "rmmod qla2300" with mounted
filesystems, and your system happily removes all child devices.
Hello, EIO!
Now, I know we're well into "Doctor, it hurts when I do this,"
territory here. But we generally try not to allow this sort of mistake.
You can't remove a network card while the interface is up, you can't
remove sd_mod while a disk is in use, etc.
Has this been seen before? Is there any plan to make qla2300
and mptspi respect the use count of the objects they present to the
system? Thoughts?
Joel
--
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Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127
next reply other threads:[~2005-12-30 23:50 UTC|newest]
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2005-12-30 23:50 Joel Becker [this message]
2006-01-03 19:17 ` qla2300 & mptscsih refcount, or lack thereof Patrick Mansfield
2006-01-03 19:28 ` Andrew Vasquez
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2006-01-03 22:03 Moore, Eric
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