From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760817AbZE0Lfp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 07:35:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757768AbZE0Lfe (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 07:35:34 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46360 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757459AbZE0Lfd (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 07:35:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4A1D2583.8040803@suse.de> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:35:31 +0200 From: Hannes Reinecke User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern Cc: Kay Sievers , James Bottomley , SCSI development list , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kernel development list , Tejun Heo , Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories. References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:49, James Bottomley >> wrote: >> >>> OK ... perhaps we have to wait a little harder: try this; it waits until >>> all the targets have disappeared from visibility via an event. >> That seems to work fine here. > > It's good for a short-term fix. For the longer term, I still think > it's a mistake to wait for the sdevs to be released before deleting the > target. It gives user programs the ability to block the host-removal > thread indefinitely. > Quite so. We should rather see to have the reference counting fixed properly, than this would go away automatically. So I just have to look for someone to fix my iSCSI bugs, than I could revamp my patchset ... Sigh. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)