Re: [PATCH] driver core: fix shutdown races with probe/remove(v2)

From: Alan Stern
Date: Thu Jun 21 2012 - 12:12:38 EST


On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ming Lei wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > We also have not made the rule that a shutdown will complete in a
> > specific amount of time either, so there is no problem if that takes a
> > long time as well.
>
> OK, I will submit a new patch which just holds device lock.
>
> Alan, do you have objections on the new one?

No objections. It should end up being pretty much like one of the
patches you posted earlier.

Should there be an option for a debug log of each device name just
before its shutdown routine is called?

Alan Stern

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