On 21/12/12 18:23, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM, John Beard <johnb@codexdigital.com> wrote:
What is the right way to terminate requests and delete the gendisk in the case of physically vanished PCI devices (or even devices in general)?
There are several block driver examples in drivers/block. Or you might want to take a loot at mtdblock.c, or perhaps this simple ubiblock implementation:
Thanks, Ezequiel - sorry for the delay, I haven't had a chance to touch my development computer over the break. The workqueue-based approach from ubiblock.c seems to have solved the problem and the device can now shut down happily once the request queue is emptied in the submit_req call following device removal. Thanks again for your help! John Beard