Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:00:41 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices (fwd) |
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
> It would remove another implicit "magic" from the core, which is good.
Yes.
> Otherwise we will need to introduce a kobject_orphan(), to disassociate > an object from its parent, which would be kind of weird, just to break > out of the default core logic. > > I would expect this patch to have an effect only at the pretty complex > refcounting users of the driver core, which are SCSI and USB, and I > expect the people involved are good prepared now, to fix such possible > bugs, should they show up. :)
The person who has to be convinced is Greg. :-)
Alan Stern
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