On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:43:54PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:34:16PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:36:57AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Yes. We could just revert that commit, but it seems correct, and I'd > > > really like for somebody to understand _why_ that commit matters at all. I > > > certainly don't see the overlap here.. > > > > Reverting the commit breaks MMC/SD in a very real way, and the fix > > is plainly correct and is actually the only possible fix that can be > > applied. > > Bullshit. Could you explain what generic code dereferences ->driverfs_dev > after del_gendisk()? If you see such beast, please tell; _that_ is the > real bug. Aha... So block_uevent() appears to be badly broken. Lovely... OK, could somebody explain WTF is userland supposed to do with event refering to device that had been gone for a long time? - : 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
