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

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:55:43PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > That consequence looks broken, IMO.
>   Hum, it already behaves for block devices that way (and noone complained
> - but admittedly block devices tied to strange modules are less common than
> character devices). Also rmmod isn't that common IMO, but I see your point
> that it's unintuitive behavior.

Umm...  Since when?  The last time I looked, bdev module refcounts were
tied to struct gendisk, not to struct block_device.
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