Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:27:30 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when getting disconnected |
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > Greg, please look at the change again. Before kobject_put(kobj->parent) > > was done in kobject_cleanup() and so the parent would only be freed when > > all its children are gone. Now parent is deleted early, even if its > > children are still referenced by other users. This is lifetime rule > > change and should really be announced as such. > Ugh, this was done because of scsi, they required that if you really > were deleting the parent, you wanted it gone.
What is the exact meaning of "gone" here please?
-- Jiri Kosina
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