On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:46 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > so it's contained within the scsi_device. Freeing the scsi_device frees > > the classdev (and the gendev). > > > But does not call the ->release function. Please just read the code like I asked. If you do, you'll find that the sdev_classdev release method is NULL until scsi_sysfs_add_sdev() precisely for the reason that the class references don't matter until that point. We're free to kill the whole thing without bothering about the class devices until scsi_add_lun detects something and calls scsi_sysfs_add_sdev() to make the whole thing visible. Then all classdevs get a ref on the parent gendev which their release method relinquishes. > Put it the other way round: does 'rmmod aic7xxx' work for you? > It certainly did _not_ work for aic79xx, hence the fix. Well, I know aic7xxx works perfectly on a dual channel card, because I actually test the failure paths and insmod/rmmod is one of my tests. I can't comment on aic79xx because I don't have the hardware. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
