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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] How should delete_resource() handle children?
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:12:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40341B82.1090403@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218174800.0a3183ec.rddunlap@osdl.org>



Randy.Dunlap wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:33:49 +0000 Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:
>
>| 
>| If you call release_resource() on a resource that has children, all
>| of those children are silently removed from the list too.  Does anybody
>| currently depend on that behaviour?
>| 
>
...

>| 
>| 
>| Comments?
>
>Ideally (or if nothing depends on the current behavior), I think it
>should just be an error (return -EINVAL), not a BUG_ON().  I.e.,
>releasing a resource should be an explicit action.
>
>

-EBUSY?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-19  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-10 19:33 Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-19  1:48 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-19  2:12   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-02-19  2:07     ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-19  2:20   ` Matthew Wilcox

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