On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:06:41AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Maneesh Soni wrote: > > > hmm, I guess Greg has to say the final word. The question is either to fail > > the IO (-ENODEV) or fail the file removal (-EBUSY). If we are not going to > > fail the removal then your patch is the way to go. > > > > Greg? > > Oliver is right that we cannot allow device_remove_file() to fail. In > fact we can't even allow it to block until all the existing open file > references are closed. > > Our major questions have to do with the details of the patch itself. In > particular, we are worried about possible races with the VFS and the > handling of the inode's usage count. Can you examine the patch carefully > to see if it is okay? >
Sorry for late reply.. I reviewed the patch and it looks ok me. Thanks Maneesh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
