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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...>, Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when getting disconnected
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008 - 2:24 pm

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

I do agree that this might want reverting, unless there is some rally good 
reason for it. People may have pefectly valid reasons to expect topology 
and reachability to remain valid - it's certainly what we guarantee in the 
VFS code for similar rules (ie the parent of a dentry is only free'd after 
all children have gone away).

Greg, is it possible to get the old lifetime rules back wrt his? They seem 
valid and sane..

			Linus
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[PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when gett..., Björn, (Sun Mar 30, 2:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Johannes Berg, (Mon Mar 31, 5:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Björn, (Mon Mar 31, 3:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Johannes Berg, (Tue Apr 1, 7:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Björn, (Tue Apr 1, 11:20 am)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Johannes Berg, (Wed Apr 2, 5:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sun Mar 30, 5:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Johannes Berg, (Mon Mar 31, 4:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 2:15 am)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 1:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 2:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 4:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Jiri Kosina, (Mon Mar 31, 5:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Kay Sievers, (Mon Mar 31, 6:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 4:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 6:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 11:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Linus Torvalds, (Mon Mar 31, 2:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Mar 31, 7:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 7:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Mar 31, 9:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Sun Mar 30, 6:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Björn, (Sun Mar 30, 6:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 4:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Mar 30, 7:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sun Mar 30, 6:35 pm)