linux-kernel - Re: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices (fwd)

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0711071459510.6432-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:00:41 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
cc:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core
 devices (fwd)

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:

> It would remove another implicit "magic" from the core, which is good.

Yes.

> Otherwise we will need to introduce a kobject_orphan(), to disassociate
> an object from its parent, which would be kind of weird, just to break
> out of the default core logic.
> 
> I would expect this patch to have an effect only at the pretty complex
> refcounting users of the driver core, which are SCSI and USB, and I
> expect the people involved are good prepared now, to fix such possible
> bugs, should they show up. :)

The person who has to be convinced is Greg.  :-)

Alan Stern

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