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Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 2013 10:04:25 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kobject: remove kset from sysfs immediately in
 kset_unregister()

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:20:16PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> There's no explicit "unlink from sysfs" interface for ksets, so I think
> callers of kset_unregister() expect the kset to be removed from sysfs
> immediately, without waiting for the last reference to be released.
> 
> This patch makes the sysfs removal happen immediately, so the caller may
> create a new kset with the same name as soon as kset_unregister() returns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>

With the PCI MSI attribute change, this patch is no longer needed,
right?

thanks,

greg k-h

> ---
>  Documentation/kobject.txt |    3 ++-
>  lib/kobject.c             |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt
> index c5182bb..8e8b501 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kobject.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt
> @@ -342,7 +342,8 @@ kset use:
>  
>  When you are finished with the kset, call:
>    void kset_unregister(struct kset *kset);
> -to destroy it.
> +to destroy it.  This removes the kset from sysfs and, after the kset
> +reference count goes to zero, releases it.
>  
>  An example of using a kset can be seen in the
>  samples/kobject/kset-example.c file in the kernel tree.
> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> index 9621751..9098992 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ void kset_unregister(struct kset *k)
>  {
>  	if (!k)
>  		return;
> +	kobject_del(&k->kobj);
>  	kobject_put(&k->kobj);
>  }
>  
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