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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 23:56, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> Ok, I copied my newly installed system to another disks, to have a
>> root filesytem to trash again by this bug. :)
>>
>> Which of your patches should I try?
>
> James's patch, not mine.

I tried both, both don't fix the issue. With Alan's patch it *seems*
the target device never gets removed, at least I didn't see anything
in the kobject debug logs.

Kay

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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 23:56, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> Ok, I copied my newly installed system to another disks, to have a
>> root filesytem to trash again by this bug. :)
>>
>> Which of your patches should I try?
>
> James's patch, not mine.

I tried both, both don't fix the issue. With Alan's patch it *seems*
the target device never gets removed, at least I didn't see anything
in the kobject debug logs.

Kay