From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories. Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:35:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1D2583.8040803@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Kay Sievers , James Bottomley , SCSI development list , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kernel development list , Tejun Heo , Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" To: Alan Stern Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46360 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757459AbZE0Lfd (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 07:35:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >=20 >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:49, James Bottomley >> wrote: >> >>> OK ... perhaps we have to wait a little harder: try this; it waits = until >>> all the targets have disappeared from visibility via an event. >> That seems to work fine here. >=20 > It's good for a short-term fix. For the longer term, I still think=20 > it's a mistake to wait for the sdevs to be released before deleting t= he=20 > target. It gives user programs the ability to block the host-removal= =20 > thread indefinitely. >=20 Quite so. We should rather see to have the reference counting fixed properly, than this would go away automatically. So I just have to look for someone to fix my iSCSI bugs, than I could revamp my patchset ... Sigh. Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html