From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
maneesh@in.ibm.com, viro@math.psu.edu,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unregistering interfaces
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:34:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040331003447.GC10262@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406A0C15.7090506@pacbell.net>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:08:53PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> Alan Stern wrote:
>
> > I'm in favor of changing the behavior of sysfs, so that either it
> >refuses to delete directories that contain subdirectories or else it
> >recursively deletes the subdirectories first. At this point nothing has
> >been settled.
>
> Hmm, certainly I agree khubd should be deleting things bottom-up.
>
> Are you say it isn't doing that already? Or that it's trying to,
> but something's preventing that from working?
Look at everything that hangs off of usb devices in the sysfs tree that
the usb core knows nothing about (scsi hosts, tty devices, etc.)
Anyway, it's working properly now, and is why I added that kobject
parent patch a long time ago (which Alan still seems to think is
incorrect...)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-31 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-03-29 23:16 ` Unregistering interfaces Greg KH
2004-03-29 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-30 0:01 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 7:38 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-30 15:38 ` Alan Stern
2004-03-30 5:51 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-30 23:01 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-30 23:30 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:57 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:56 ` Alan Stern
2004-03-31 0:08 ` David Brownell
2004-03-31 0:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-31 15:32 ` Alan Stern
2004-03-31 0:33 ` Greg KH
2004-03-31 15:54 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-01 7:24 ` Greg KH
2004-03-30 23:55 ` [PATCH] back out sysfs reference count change Greg KH
2004-03-31 2:11 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-31 2:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-31 9:26 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-31 15:11 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-01 5:17 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-01 7:15 ` Greg KH
2004-04-01 14:56 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-02 4:38 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-02 21:41 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-06 10:13 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-06 17:03 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-14 13:20 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-15 21:36 ` Greg KH
2004-04-15 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-16 8:42 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-31 22:18 ` Greg KH
2004-04-01 1:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-01 3:48 ` Alan Stern
2004-04-01 6:55 ` Greg KH
2004-04-01 7:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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