[PATCH 2.6.35] mtd: blktrans: Move device and module ref-counting back to open/release

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 16:34 -0700, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ben Hutchings
> <bhutchings at solarflare.com> wrote:
> > commit 048d87199566663e4edc4880df3703c04bcf41d9 "mtd: blktrans: Hotplug
> > fixes" causes the MTD and the MTD driver module's ref-counts to be
> > bumped for each block device that is created, whether or not it's
> > actually in use.
> >
> > This means that before removing an MTD or driver module one must first
> > remove all the associated block devices.  But the block devices will
> > be removed only when the MTDs themselves are removed, which is no
> > longer possible.
> 
> Just updated to 2.6.36-rc3 and noticed a related issue.  Configuration is:
> 
> CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y
> CONFIG_MTD_BLKDEVS=y
> CONFIG_MTD_UBI_GLUEBI=y

Would you please check if Maxim's patch fixes this:
[PATCH V2] MTD: blktrans: Final version of hotplug support

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)