Re: [PATCH 0/2] driver core / ACPI: Avoid device removal lockingproblems

[Toshi Kani]

On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 15:45 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The following two patches are to address possible deadlocks related to
> device removal and device sysfs attribute access.  In short, some device
> sysfs attribute callbacks need to acquire locks that are also held around
> device removal and that may lead to deadlocks with s_active draining in
> sysfs_deactivate().
> 
> [1/2] Avoid possible device removal deadlocks related to device_hotplug_lock.
> [2/2] Rework the handling of containers by ACPI hotplug (which makes a possible
>       device removal deadlock related to acpi_scan_lock go away).

I like the simplicity of this version. :-)  I also agree to remove the
eject_pending flag.  For the series:

Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>

Thanks,
-Toshi

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