linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kobject: make sure kobj->ktype is set before kobject

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Message-ID: <20071130103032.6393d846@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:30:32 +0100
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: make sure kobj->ktype is set before
 kobject_init

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:26:40 +0100,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:20 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:09 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > > > > There's another good reason for not assigning the name in
> > > > > kobject_init(): Code that uses kobjects (like the driver core) doesn't
> > > > > set the name until later.
> > > > 
> > > > That can be done at any stage, I guess. We will rip out the name in the
> > > > struct device anyway.
> > > 
> > > Are you also going to change all the places in the kernel where the
> > > device name (.bus_id) isn't set until after device_initialize() has
> > > been called?

Hmpf, ccw does this as well...

> > 
> > Yes, I already have a patch that does that for all stuff that was needed
> > on my boxes.
> 
> To be exact, bus_id will be removed from the device, and the device name
> will be set and retrieved directly from the kobject.

I guess you'll have accessor functions for the bus id for use by higher
level code?
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