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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.
>
>

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