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Quotes of the week
What guarantees that it doesn't happen before we get to callback? AFAICS,
nothing whatsoever...
-- Al Viro shows how to debug kernel
problems
And if it does happen, we'll get rdev happily freed (by rdev_free(), as ->release() of &rdev->kobj) by the time we get to delayed_delete(). Which explains what's going on just fine.
I consider the fact that I
can spend full-time working on Linux to be a blessing. But if you
don't feel that way, my condolences, and please do what you need to do
so you can stay in your happy place.
-- Ted Ts'o shows how to respond with class
to trolls(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 14, 2008 16:42 UTC (Mon) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link] Garbage collection!!
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 14, 2008 21:03 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Yeah, 'cos what we really *need* in the kernel is net/unix/garbage.c applied to everything! :/
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 15, 2008 22:48 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link] [wry] I think you've misparsed him - s/garbage/rubbish/ and it might make more sense. Certainly an apt description of sysfs-related code in general. [/wry]
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 16, 2008 8:39 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Ah, right. Yes, that parses. (Also: the human whose job it is to place all the garbage in one subdirectory, prior to rm -rf.)
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