Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:47:09 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [GPIO]implement sleeping GPIO chip removal |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:15:40PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:07:05PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > If we see a shortcoming like this, we fix it and do not magically work > > > around it. > > > > +1 > > > > Thomas is right. kobject reference counting is the correct solution. > > Nack on this approach. > > Only use a kobject if you want to be in the sysfs hierarchy (which I > don't think you want to do here.) If you want proper reference > counting, use a 'struct kref' instead.
Oops, yes. I always confuse those.
Thanks for pointing it out - probably not the first time :)
tglx
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