Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 07/08] scsi: remove bogus {get|put}_device() calls

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

  Hi,

James Bottomley wrote:
> 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.

  Yeap, you're right.  So, what we have is

  * All high-level users have open access to the scsi high-level
    object on issueing requests, but may close it before its requests
    complete.
  * All mid-layer users do get_device() before submitting requests,
    but may put_device() before its requests complete.

  Thanks for pointing that out.  :-)

-- 
tejun