From: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernfs/rtc: circular dependency between kernfs and ops_lock
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:03:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140331140344.6030c7da@linux.lan.towertech.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53394C5E.2030207@metafoo.de>
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:07:10 +0200
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> wrote:
> It doesn't really matter where it is unregistered. device_unregister() will
> (somewhere down it's callchain) take the kernfs lock, hence it must be
> callled with the rtc mutex being held.
Maybe device_remove_attrs could be called in the rtc base class,
before the device removal?
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-31 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-22 17:51 kernfs/rtc: circular dependency between kernfs and ops_lock Sasha Levin
2014-02-22 20:52 ` Tejun Heo
2014-02-24 11:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2014-03-25 21:52 ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-25 22:39 ` Alessandro Zummo
2014-03-26 0:19 ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-30 0:28 ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-30 16:04 ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-31 9:46 ` Alessandro Zummo
2014-03-31 9:52 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-03-31 10:43 ` Alessandro Zummo
2014-03-31 11:07 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-03-31 12:03 ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2014-03-31 12:19 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-04-02 22:51 ` Sasha Levin
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