linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 23/20] driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device

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Date:	Sun, 24 May 2009 00:15:50 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/20] driver core: Don't remove kobjects in 
	device_shutdown.

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 22:13, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
>
> device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not
> clean up any kernel data structures.  Therefore don't put the kobjects
> for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char.
>
> This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while
> we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>

Looks good.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>

Thanks,
Kay
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