From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754114AbYINJWz (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:22:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751992AbYINJWr (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:22:47 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:46273 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752429AbYINJWr (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:22:47 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <48CCD7E9.50805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:22:49 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: time out in fw_core_remove_card References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I wrote: > This allows "modprobe -r firewire-ohci" (or card unbinding in general) > to proceed after 40 seconds even if there is a reference counting bug or > other shutdown bug in upper layers. Hmm, this doesn't work quite perfectly yet if there are userspace clients which keep a device open. fw-cdev needs to be trained to let go of a device as gracefully as fw-sbp2 does nowadays. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =--= -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/