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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:04:11 +0200
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:49:11 +0200,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:20:51 -0400 (EDT),
> Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> 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.

OK, I've tested this a bit (with a silly dummy driver and zfcp with
hacked-back-in unload support) and I haven't encountered any problems
so far. So I second the seems-to-work statement :)