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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, tj@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:25:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090312112536.734ca15b@gondolin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090311184225.GC23138@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:25 -0600,
Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:

> * Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 06:47:29PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > (For the original oops, I'd rather solve the problem by making sure the
> > > caller doesn't trigger removal several times - should probably be less
> > > code than the proposed patch?)
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to do this?
> 
> I still think the original patch I proposed is the right answer.

How about just putting a marker on your device that is going to be
unregistered and refusing to schedule it again? (This marker could also
be used to block other undesired actions; that's what ccwgroup does.)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-10 23:20 [PATCH, RFC] sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj Alex Chiang
2009-03-11  4:41 ` Greg KH
2009-03-11  7:03   ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-11  7:20     ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-12  0:27       ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-12  3:22         ` Greg KH
2009-03-12 22:02           ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-13 12:03             ` Cornelia Huck
2009-03-13 18:08               ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-11 15:32     ` Greg KH
2009-03-11 17:47       ` Cornelia Huck
2009-03-11 18:14         ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-11 18:19         ` Greg KH
2009-03-11 18:42           ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-12 10:25             ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2009-03-12 21:33               ` Alex Chiang

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