From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S637778AbXDSOqe (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:46:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S637781AbXDSOqe (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:46:34 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:44090 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S637778AbXDSOqd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:46:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:49:11 +0200 From: Cornelia Huck To: Alan Stern Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel , Greg K-H , Rusty Russell , Subject: Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism Message-ID: <20070419164911.76884b12@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20070419152941.7c4b7ff2@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Organization: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-Legal: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Johann Weihen =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrung:?= Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6blingen?= Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:20:51 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern wrote: > The patch below, applied on top of Cornelia's changes plus the > kobject_init() patch I posted earlier, actually seems to work. And it > prevents an oops which I was able to trigger without it. Looks nice at first glance. I'll try to test it a bit.