On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013/5/14 10:28, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> We should not release resource in pci_destroy that is too early > > Hi Yinghai, > "too early" means that after pci_stop_dev(), if someone else > hold the device reference, it still care the device resource ? e.g.? I don't mean that. > >> as there could be still other use hold reference. purpose is: move res releasing as late as possible. so pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device could be called several times for nested removing via sys. Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html