Re: refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > I'm with Dmitry; the whole thing becomes much, much simpler if we put back
> > your patch and prevent sysfs access after unregistering an attribute 
> > file.  No API changes are needed, no driver changes are needed, no radical 
> > core changes are needed,...  All we would have to do is fix the one SCSI 
> > method to make it use a workqueue.
> 
> Try.

I did.  Didn't you see this message from Saturday:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117355959020831&w=2

I sent it to Linus as well as to all of you.  No replies received so far 
from anybody.

>  I don't like reverting my own code. But I predict he'll tell you that a
> driver's bond with a device should be represented in a data structure
> that is to be refcounted.

:-)

Alan Stern

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