Re: refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers

Alan Stern
2007-03-12T19:31:35Z

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > I'm with Dmitry; the whole thing becomes much, much simpler if we put back
> > your patch and prevent sysfs access after unregistering an attribute
> > file. No API changes are needed, no driver changes are needed, no radical
> > core changes are needed,... All we would have to do is fix the one SCSI
> > method to make it use a workqueue.
>
> Try.

I did. Didn't you see this message from Saturday:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117355959020831&w=2

I sent it to Linus as well as to all of you. No replies received so far
from anybody.

> I don't like reverting my own code. But I predict he'll tell you that a
> driver's bond with a device should be represented in a data structure
> that is to be refcounted.

:-)

Alan Stern