Hi Bart, On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:23:21PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > So if a driver stops using a (major, minor) number pair and the same device > number is reused before the bdi device has been released the warning > mentioned in the patch description at the start of this thread is triggered. > This patch fixes that race by removing the bdi device from sysfs during the > __scsi_remove_device() call instead of when the bdi device is released.
that's why I suggested only releasing the minor number (or rather dev_t) once we release the BDI, similar to what MD and DM do. But what I really wanted to ask for is what your reproducer looks like. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
