Re: [PATCH 2/4] chardev: Increment cdev reference count when i_cdev references it

[Jan Kara]

On Tue 04-11-14 14:46:11, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Currently i_cdev reference to a character device isn't accounted in the
> > reference count of the character device. This then requires us to track
> > all references through a list of all inodes referencing a character
> > device which is somewhat clumsy and requires list_head in each inode in
> > the system.
> > 
> > So make i_cdev a reference like any other.
> 
> So no rmmod for you until an inode of character device node you had
> closed a while ago finally gets evicted from icache?  Or am I misreading
> you?
  Yes, this is a consequence of the change. I should have noted in the
changelog I guess.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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