Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories.

[Hannes Reinecke]

Hi all,

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:49, James Bottomley
>> <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> OK ... perhaps we have to wait a little harder: try this; it waits until
>>> all the targets have disappeared from visibility via an event.
>> That seems to work fine here.
> 
> It's good for a short-term fix.  For the longer term, I still think 
> it's a mistake to wait for the sdevs to be released before deleting the 
> target.  It gives user programs the ability to block the host-removal 
> thread indefinitely.
> 
Quite so. We should rather see to have the reference counting fixed
properly, than this would go away automatically.

So I just have to look for someone to fix my iSCSI bugs, than I could
revamp my patchset ...

Sigh.

Cheers,

Hannes
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