Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263931AbUDNH1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:27:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263941AbUDNH1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:27:14 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:32231 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263931AbUDNH1K (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:27:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:27:09 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Maneesh Soni Cc: LKML , Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks Message-ID: <20040414072709.GC31500@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040413124037.GA21637@in.ibm.com> <20040413133615.GZ31500@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040414064015.GA4505@in.ibm.com> <20040414070227.GA31500@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040414071756.GB5422@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040414071756.GB5422@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 22 On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:47:56PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:02:27AM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:10:16PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > > > I am not sure, if pinning the kobject for the life time of symlink (dentry) > > > may result in same problems like rmmod hang which we saw in case of pinning > > > kobject for the life time of its directory (dentry). > > > > Erm... If rmmod _ever_ waits for refcount on kobject to reach zero, it's > > already broken. Do you have any examples of such behaviour? > > One such example is here in this bug report related to pcmica yenta socket. > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884 > > Another one is very recent in this long thread related to USB > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.devel/20468 USB folks have no clue on sane lifetime rules, film at 11... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/