From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reference counting of MMC host driver modules
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:41:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090111104111.5a0f00e1@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49686F0C.7030807@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0100
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> So, if somebody asked me to copy my ieee1394/sbp2 safeguard into
> firewire/fw-sbp2, I would reject that on the grounds that killing the
> connection to the FireWire disk is the *expected result* of
> # modprobe -r firewire-ohci
I have to agree with Stefan's reasoning here. The reference counting is
about protecting kernel integrity, not about saving the user's foot.
Rgds
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 17:07 Enrik Berkhan
2009-01-09 18:20 ` David Vrabel
2009-01-09 20:00 ` Enrik Berkhan
2009-01-10 9:49 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-11 9:41 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2009-01-12 15:41 ` Enrik Berkhan
2009-01-12 17:10 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-12 20:01 ` Enrik Berkhan
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