Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:33:41 +0000 | From | Ian Abbott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH(v3) 2.6.24] Fix fakephp deadlock |
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On 27/01/08 06:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adding a deferred-work like this just because we can't get the locking and > refcounting correct is a really sad hack.
True, but some would argue that the fakephp driver itself was a really sad hack. :-)
> Can we get the locking and refcounting right please? Start by making that > wait-for-refcount-to-go-away go away.
I guess that stuff was added for a good reason and fixed other potential problems - it just broke fakephp. It's an unusual requirement to try and support -- a file that self-destructs when you write to it. Are there any other cases in sysfs that do that?
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