On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:10:52 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > So how are you going to make that work in conjunction with the in > > progress work on doing stuff like revoke(), and with module reference > > counting ? > > Reference count on which module? This would not take a reference on the device > driver as it would not refer to it, but would still have a file struct, an > inode struct and a dentry struct on the underlying fs. Which means the device could be unloaded, something else loaded and your handle wouldn't be invalidated but would be stale ? Perhaps it would make more sense to me if I knew why you needed to do this ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
