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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: sbp2: modprobe -r fails, module allegedly in use
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:51:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D1602C.3040303@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050710173732.GF14956@phunnypharm.org>

Ben Collins wrote:
[James Bottomley wrote]
>>I notice that you don't do a scsi_device_put() after
>>scsi_add_device().  I think this is probably the source of the
>>refcounting errors: scsi_add_device returns an sdev with the refcount
>>incremented by one, so you need to decrement the count after you've
>>finished with it (in your case, you do nothing with it, so just
>>decrement after you've checked it's not an error pointer).
> 
> Thanks. Stefan, can you test with that change? I've already put it in the
> repo.

That fixes it. The error handler commits suicide when he should, and the
sbp2 module can be unloaded.

Thanks James.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-10 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-10 14:42 sbp2: modprobe -r fails, module allegedly in use Stefan Richter
2005-07-10 15:07 ` Stefan Richter
2005-07-10 15:31 ` Ben Collins
2005-07-10 17:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-07-10 17:46     ` Ben Collins
2005-07-10 17:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-07-10 17:52         ` Ben Collins
2005-07-10 17:29 ` James Bottomley
2005-07-10 17:37   ` Ben Collins
2005-07-10 17:51     ` Stefan Richter [this message]

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