Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1749667AbXBSHGW (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:06:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750696AbXBSHGW (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:06:22 -0500 Received: from 85.8.24.16.se.wasadata.net ([85.8.24.16]:53153 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1749667AbXBSHGV (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:06:21 -0500 Message-ID: <45D94C70.1080802@drzeus.cx> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:06:24 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070131) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Dubov CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver References: <64677.73649.qm@web36711.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <64677.73649.qm@web36711.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 22 Alex Dubov wrote: > > You'll agree, I think, that add_disk in mmc_block_probe issues a lot of requests (reads partition > table, fs superblocks and such - plenty of room for critical errors). Then, driver's remove method > will not be called before driver's probe method had finished. So mmc_block is quite involved, even > though it does not affect the problem's resolution. I agree that mmc_block's probe method will generate a whole bunch of requests. But I don't see how that can be called given the scenario you describe. Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org - 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/