On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:42:04 +0200, "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> seems like you have the same problem as the dvb framework has/had. > > http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-stable > > The last 3 changesets do the trick to not oops, it will delay the > deinitialization of the device till the last user closed the device node. Probably dumb question (since I'm not at all familiar with the dvb code): Isn't that a different race you're solving there? I don't see any driver core objects involved (except class devices created by class_device_create, which obviously don't have the release function problem). This looks more like a race of "we want an object to go away, but a user still has a file open" (which would be similar to the kobject<->sysfs lifetime rules issues, where work is currently ongoing). - 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/