From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: various vmbus review comments
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:07:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110510130754.GA6667@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481EEFF1@TK5EX14MBXC128.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
> I must be missing something here. As I look at the block driver (and
> this is indicative of other drivers as well); the exit routine -
> blkvsc_drv_exit, first iterates through all the devices it manages
> and invokes device_unregister() on each of the devices and then
> invokes vmbus_child_driver_unregister() which is just a wrapper on
> driver_unregister(). So, if I understand you correctly, you want the devices to
> persist even if there is no driver bound to them. So, if I eliminated the code
> that iterates over the devices and unregisters them, that should fix the problem
> and I can do this without changing the vmbus core interfaces.
If that actually works go for it. But there's no way to know that
without actually implementing and testing it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-10 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-03 20:46 various vmbus review comments Greg KH
2011-05-03 21:00 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-03 22:03 ` Greg KH
2011-05-03 22:49 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-04 16:20 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-04 16:32 ` Greg KH
2011-05-04 16:58 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-04 18:28 ` Greg KH
2011-05-06 13:10 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-06 14:59 ` Greg KH
2011-05-06 17:34 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-09 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-09 14:56 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-10 5:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-10 13:00 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-10 13:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-05-10 13:16 ` Greg KH
2011-05-09 1:46 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-05-09 3:04 ` Greg KH
2011-05-09 12:35 ` KY Srinivasan
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