From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261668AbUC3XIr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:08:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261992AbUC3XFO (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:05:14 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:40626 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261661AbUC3XD0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:03:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:01:42 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Maneesh Soni Cc: Andrew Morton , stern@rowland.harvard.edu, david-b@pacbell.net, viro@math.psu.edu, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unregistering interfaces Message-ID: <20040330230142.GA13571@kroah.com> References: <20040328063711.GA6387@kroah.com> <20040328123857.55f04527.akpm@osdl.org> <20040329210219.GA16735@kroah.com> <20040329132551.23e12144.akpm@osdl.org> <20040329231604.GA29494@kroah.com> <20040329153117.558c3263.akpm@osdl.org> <20040330055135.GA8448@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040330055135.GA8448@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:21:35AM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > > I am not very clear about how the first two behave. Still I can think > of a solution within sysfs like this as Alen suggested. But again I am not > very sure if this can be done properly without any races. But anyway I am > trying. > > 1) backout my patch sysfs-pin-kobject.patch I think we need to do this now, as it is not a correct fix, and causes more problems than good at this time. I suggest you try to fix the oops you were seeing in either another way, or in a way that does not break other things :) I'll send a patch off to Linus to do this in a little bit... thanks, greg k-h