linux-kernel - Re: kobject

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0711291713330.6294-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:16:28 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: kobject_init rewrite

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Greg KH wrote:

> Ok, how about this function.  If it errors out, it is free to just call
> kfree() on the kobject.  Seems simple enough to me, any objections?  If
> not, I'll go through and fix up the whole tree...

Looks good, _provided_ you also get rid of kobject_register().  Which 
you pretty much would have to do anyway, since it doesn't accept the 
ktype or the name as an argument.

Alan Stern

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