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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@emerson.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] block2mtd: removing a device and typo fixes
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:55:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <chaz20080220165513.GU4539@artesyncp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080220164226.GF5539@lazybastard.org>

2008-02-20 17:42:27 +0100, Jörn Engel:
> On Wed, 20 February 2008 14:36:46 +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > 
> > At the moment, when we bind a mtd device to a block device, we
> > don't increase the refcount. When a mtdblock on a block2mtd, the
> > refcount is not increased either (the mtdblock's one is I
> > guess).
> 
> That is a bug then.
[...]

Well, given that there is no API to unbind a mtd to a block
device, otherwise, we would never be able to unload block2mtd.
So fare, unloading block2mtd was the only way to unbind a mtd
from a block device.

Cheers,
Stephane

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12 13:47 Stephane Chazelas
2008-02-12 15:21 ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-12 16:10   ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-02-19 15:08     ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-19 22:33       ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-20  6:43         ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-20 14:43         ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-02-20 16:30           ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-20 17:02             ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-02-20 17:22               ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-20 17:30                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-02-23 15:33                   ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-20 14:36       ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-02-20 16:42         ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-20 16:55           ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]

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