From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add release function to sd for scsi_disk structure Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:08:55 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031022160855.GC1684@beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20031018074040.GA1210@beaverton.ibm.com> <20031021092654.A22958@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:51076 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263686AbTJVQFV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:05:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031021092654.A22958@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig [hch@infradead.org] wrote: > > This looks like a reasonable bandaid until the block layer is fixed. > Since I do not know the extent of the block layer changes maybe my assumption is incorrect, but wouldn't will still need a release of some kind to know when it is safe to do a free? -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com