Re: [RFC] How should delete_resource() handle children?

[Nick Piggin]

Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:33:49 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> | 
> | If you call release_resource() on a resource that has children, all
> | of those children are silently removed from the list too.  Does anybody
> | currently depend on that behaviour?
> | 
...

> | 
> | 
> | Comments?
>
> Ideally (or if nothing depends on the current behavior), I think it
> should just be an error (return -EINVAL), not a BUG_ON().  I.e.,
> releasing a resource should be an explicit action.

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