linux-kernel - Re: [RFD driver-core] Lifetime problems of the current driver model

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Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:33:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@...oo.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, hugh@...itas.com, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, oneukum@...e.de, maneesh@...ibm.com,
	rpurdie@...ys.net, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD driver-core] Lifetime problems of the current driver model

--- James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com> wrote:

> I'd favour trying to separate kobject and struct device for this ...
> move all the sysfs stuff into kobject and device only stuff into struct
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Currently the kobject implementation is pure and well-defined.  It is
a good implementation [kobject], and I'd hate to see it lost into being
convoluted with/into another model.

Currently the infrastructure layers are well defined:
   kobject ->  (A layer with objects, their behavor and implementation)
          device ->   (--"--)
                  sysfs.   (--"--)
This isn't that bad of an infrastructure.

It is this well defined layering, i.e. objects, their behavior and
implementation, that allows different (better/worse) infrastructures
to be built on top of it.

It is this well-defined layering which will allow what Tejun wants
to be implemented.

> device ... but that would get us into disentangling the ksets, which, on
> balance, isn't going to be fun ...

     Luben

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