linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4, v7] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects

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Message-ID: <20080301051247.GB19353@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:12:47 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>,
	kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com, warthog19@...lescrag.net,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, kristen.c.accardi@...el.com,
	rick.jones2@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4, v7] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:23:41PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Hi Gary, John, Kenji-san, et. al,
> 
> Well, first Gary was on holiday for a month, and then I was on
> holiday for a month, but I'm back now, and have refreshed this
> patch series against 2.6.25.
> 
> The major thing that happened was all the kobject changes
> (learned my lesson about taking long holidays when holding onto a
> largish chunk of code that hasn't been accepted yet ;), and so
> the only real change is in patch 3/4.
> 
> The kobject changes were nice, btw. In the prior versions of this
> series, I could never figure out why my kobjects weren't getting
> released when their refcounts went to 1, and had some hacky code
> in there to manually release them. (I'm sure I was doing
> something wrong, but I couldn't figure out what.) I was able to
> remove that hack in this series because the kobjects are working
> the way they're supposed to.
> 
> I did turn on kobject debugging, and all seems well except for
> one little thing. I based my module (pci_slot) on acpiphp, and
> the kobject system complains:
> 
> kobject: 'acpiphp' (a00000020476aed0): does not have a release()
> function, it is broken and must be fixed.
> 
> kobject: 'pci_slot' (a000000204791e50): does not have a release()
> function, it is broken and must be fixed.
> 
> Not quite sure what to do about these yet, but since no one has
> fixed acpiphp yet, I'm thinking that I can't be *too* wrong. :)

Um, the obvious solution of providing a release function for these
kobjects is somehow not correct?

Please do that, otherwise the code is wrong (and yes, acpiphp might be
wrong as well, I haven't seen that report yet.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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