linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism

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Message-ID: <20070419152941.7c4b7ff2@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:29:41 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:06:25 +0900,
Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> wrote:

> Heh heh, I'm amazed it actually works.  Agreed that the list walking
> isn't pretty but adding completion to each kobject still feels like too
> much of overhead just for release waiting.  Any better ideas?

Not really. But I'm more in favour on adding a new field than on adding
complicated code. (Although, the whole device infrastructure wouldn't
fare bad with some diet...)
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