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    SubjectRe: [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache
    On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:52:15PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
    > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:38:50PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
    > > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:09:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > > On Fri, 12 May 2006, James Bottomley wrote:
    > > > > I suggest simply reversing this patch at the moment. If Russell and
    > > > > Jens can tell me what they're trying to do I'll see if there's another
    > > > > way to do it.
    > > >
    > > > Reverted, with a big changelog entry to explain why.
    > >
    > > Great, I'm fucked by the SCSI folk again.
    > >
    > > Can we revert the patch which broke the MMC/SD layer - the one which
    > > added the mount/unmount hotplug events as well then.
    >
    > Why would the mount/unmount hotplug event change break MMC/SD? Do you
    > have a reference to the patch in question?

    Please read the commit message in the change in question.

    The block layer holds on to a reference to a struct device which
    isn't refcounted (until I added it with my patch.) Hence struct
    gendisk structures have a completely independent lifetime and are
    only destroyed when all references to them are removed.

    --
    Russell King
    Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
    maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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