Re: RFC: Boiler plate functions for ida / idr allocation?

[Boaz Harrosh]

On 07/13/2011 05:41 AM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> On Jul 13 Jonathan Cameron wrote at LKML:
> [...]
>> Taking ida's first, how about the following patch?  I'm not at
>> all attached to the form it takes, merely to cutting out on the
>> cut and paste.
>>
>> Note I've done only a few random places.  There aren't that many ida
>> users and I've only played with that for now.
>>
>> Remaining ida cases:
>>
>> drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gmrid_manager.c:  (cleans up in case of out of range)
>> drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c: (locks not taken)
> [...]
> 
> Boaz, Benny,
> 
> osd_uld.c::osd_minor_ida is accessed unsafely.
> Device probe() and remove() methods are not globally serialized.

Sorry for the delay. Vacation

Thanks Stefan I'll look into it. I remember I thought about
it and tested it at the time, but I might be wrong. I'll look
into it.

Thanks
Boaz
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