From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:27:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192735661.2271.2.camel@lov.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0710181515560.2779-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:23 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> This patch (as1004) fixes a refcounting bug in the development version
> of the block-device core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
>
> ---
>
> Kay, you have got to start testing your patches better!
That leaves references around for SCSI target devices. There must be a
bug somewhere else, if the patch isn't correct.
> Finding and
> fixing refcount errors is _not_ one of my favorite ways to pass the
> time. For example, you could see what happens when you insert and
> unplug a USB flash disk a few times.
What do you see with the original version?
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 19:23 BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices Alan Stern
2007-10-18 19:27 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2007-10-18 20:08 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-19 1:27 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-19 14:09 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-19 14:15 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-19 17:11 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-19 23:06 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-21 1:33 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-21 19:03 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-22 0:26 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-23 0:01 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-23 4:14 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-23 11:27 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-24 18:01 ` Alan Stern
2007-10-18 19:27 ` Greg KH
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