I have also made this change in my yaffs tree.  Though the reason I made 
it was to support a removable nand device.  Without calling 
kill_block_super, the MTD block device system wouldn't rmmod cleanly. 
I posted here about the change & more details about my situation a few 
weeks ago.

Brad

Frank Rowand wrote:

> When I umount a yaffs file system on linux 2.6.9, I get the error:
>
>    VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a 
> nice day...
>
>
> In yaffs/yaffs_fs.c, I changed the .kill_sb function from
> kill_litter_super() to kill_block_super().  This made the symptom
> of the error message disappear.
>
> This area of the kernel is not my area of expertise - this was
> not a fully informed fix, but more of a stab in the dark.  Can
> anyone provide advice on whether this is a good way to fix the
> problem or whether a different approach would be more correct?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Frank


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