Alex Dubov wrote:
>
> mmc_rescan
> mmc_register_card
> device_add
> mmc_block_probe
> mmc_block_alloc
> -> queue thread starts running
> add_disk
> -> issues a lot of requests; card fails, my drivers calls mmc_remove_host, which in
> turn calls device_del, though we are still in device_add
>
Ahhh, now I see. Well that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
Removing the device in this stack is not supported (we would have a whole bunch
of nasty dead lock possibilities to consider). You need to delay the removal in
some form, e.g. using the mmc workqueue.
Rgds
--
-- Pierre Ossman
Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org
PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org
rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org
-
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/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
