Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, all. > > Agreed with the problem but I'm not very enthusiastic for adding > kobj->owner. How about the following? exit() routines will have to > do device_unregister_wait() instead of device_unregister(). On return > from it, it's guaranteed that all references to it are dropped and > ->release is finished. The caller is responsible for avoiding > deadlock, of course.
Oh, one more thing, with proper code audit, we can just make device_unregister() do the waiting instead of adding separate device_unregister_wait(). I think that will be a good step toward immediate-detach driver model. -- tejun - 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/
