On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:56 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > Should driver core defer sysfs_remove_file until > > last dev->kobj reference is dropped? > > No. The files should be deleted. James Bottomley refers to this as > "removing from visibility". There's no point leaving the symlink visible > once it can no longer be used. > > Instead, the code should be fixed so that the attempt to remove the > already-deleted symlink by class_device_del() doesn't cause an oops.
So dev->kobj->dentry should be set to NULL in device_remove_file() and other code should be fixed to check for dev->kobj->dentry == NULL ? -- Paul Fulghum Microgate Systems, Ltd ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
