On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:26 -0400, James Smart wrote: > > Isn't a better way to handle it simply to give > > transport_container_unregister() the semantics everyone is expecting > > (i.e. to wait for everything to be tidied up and gone)? That way none > > of the transport classes needs updating, and we don't have to handle the > > rather nasty release and unload races. > > I was hoping you'd give some guidance. This area is black voodoo... :) > > Sure - so are you suggesting that transport_container_unregister() > continually loop until successful ? If not, what other kind of semantic > can we give it that we don't have to muck with the transport classes ? Not looping no, but otherwise that's basically correct. I was thinking of a wait_event driven system checking for list_empty(cont->containers.k_list) I'll cook up a patch. James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
