Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3

[Russell King]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:14:31AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:09 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > where scsi_release() is the function called by the device model on the
> > last put of a scsi device.
> > 
> > I guess is more or less what you're trying to do invasively via the
> > driver model.
> 
> Yes ... except I think more than just SCSI has the problem (and we
> actually have it in more than one release function) so it seems like a
> good candidate for a general abstraction.

Maybe implementing it as a helper function would be the best and
simplest solution?

static void scsi_release(struct device *dev)
{
	schedule_release_process(dev, scsi_release_process);
}

where schedule_release_process() contains more or less what I posted
in the previous mailing.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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