On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Do you think Linus would listen if all three of us (plus maybe Greg) tried > > to convince him? > > > > If we'd accompany the argument with the patch that changes scsi to use > wq to perform deletion so we don't have deadlock regression in the > kernel he might be more perceptive...
I wrote that patch over the weekend but forgot to bring it in to work. I'll post it tonight or tomorrow. > He is right about lifetime > issues but this is not strictly lifetime issue as you correctly point > out. Plus, refcounting also bloats the kernel so I don't relly want to > use refcount for every integer I happen to export through sysfs if I > can simply "revoke" access. Agreed. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
