On Fri, 12 May 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > PS: it _is_ OK to trigger than puppy from add_disk()/del_gendisk() and in > between. I'm not sure if anyone needs it for anything, though. Triggering > it from bdev_uevent() is definitely bogus. Wouldn't it be perfectly ok if we just made sure to keep the disk device refcount elevated by the _mount_? Ie Russell's patch to elevate it around everything didn't work, but elevating the bdev->bd_disk reference count by a mount, and dropping it on umount (after doing the umount event) should be ok. No? Linus - : 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
