From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: (as177) Add class_device_unregister_wait() and platform_device_unregister_wait() to the driver model core
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:29:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127202944.GE27240@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401261435160.7855@serv>
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:22:41PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
>
> All this is done without a module count, this means that
> pci_unregister_driver() cannot return before the last reference is gone.
> For network devices this is not that much of a problem, as they can be
> rather easily deconfigured automatically, but that's not that easy for
> mounted block devices, so one has to be damned careful when to call the
> exit function.
Um, not anymore. I can yank out a mounted block device and watch the
scsi core recover just fine. The need to make everything hotpluggable
has fixed up a lot of issues like this (as well as made more
problems...)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-23 16:58 PATCH: (as177) Add class_device_unregister_wait() and platform_device_unregister_wait() to the driver model core Alan Stern
2004-01-23 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-23 18:03 ` Alan Stern
2004-01-23 18:10 ` viro
2004-01-23 18:18 ` Greg KH
2004-01-23 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-23 18:31 ` Greg KH
2004-01-23 18:11 ` Greg KH
2004-01-23 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-23 18:27 ` Greg KH
2004-01-25 17:32 ` Alan Stern
2004-01-25 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-25 20:21 ` viro
2004-01-27 6:51 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-27 13:56 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-27 23:29 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-28 2:36 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-28 3:54 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-25 23:12 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-26 3:22 ` Adam Kropelin
2004-01-26 5:06 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-26 5:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-26 5:55 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-26 6:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-26 8:48 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-26 15:50 ` Adam Kropelin
2004-01-26 16:22 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-27 19:32 ` Russell King
2004-01-27 20:28 ` Greg KH
2004-01-27 20:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-28 2:03 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-28 2:17 ` viro
2004-01-28 2:53 ` Roman Zippel
2004-01-27 6:41 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-23 19:45 ` viro
2004-01-26 5:50 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-26 15:51 ` Alan Stern
2004-01-27 22:55 ` Rusty Russell
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