On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 04-11-14 14:46:11, Al Viro wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > Currently i_cdev reference to a character device isn't accounted in the > > > reference count of the character device. This then requires us to track > > > all references through a list of all inodes referencing a character > > > device which is somewhat clumsy and requires list_head in each inode in > > > the system. > > > > > > So make i_cdev a reference like any other. > > > > So no rmmod for you until an inode of character device node you had > > closed a while ago finally gets evicted from icache? Or am I misreading > > you? > Yes, this is a consequence of the change. I should have noted in the > changelog I guess. That consequence looks broken, IMO. -- 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
