linux-kernel - Re: [-mm PATCH] sysdev_unregister() should call kobject

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Date:	Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:30:05 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] sysdev_unregister() should call kobject_del()

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 08:42 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> I can add remove link before unregister() as you suggested.
> 
> Regarding accessing kobject after freeing up, no one calls with
> "root".
> Why not clean it up first, like this ? 
> 
> Dave, are you okay with this ?

Yeah, I don't see any users of it, either.  It looks fine to me.

-- Dave

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