On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently i_cdev reference to a character device isn't accounted in the > reference count of the character device. This then requires us to track > all references through a list of all inodes referencing a character > device which is somewhat clumsy and requires list_head in each inode in > the system. > > So make i_cdev a reference like any other.
So no rmmod for you until an inode of character device node you had closed a while ago finally gets evicted from icache? Or am I misreading you? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
