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

[Stefan Richter]

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.
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