linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 08/11] sysfs: introduce new interface sysfs_get

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Message-ID: <20100518200823.GC20223@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 13:08:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"eranian@...il.com" <eranian@...il.com>,
	"Gary.Mohr@...l.com" <Gary.Mohr@...l.com>,
	"arjan@...ux.intel.com" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@...ibm.com>,
	Carl Love <carll@...ibm.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 08/11] sysfs: introduce new interface
 sysfs_get_kobject

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 01:48:43AM +0000, Lin Ming wrote:
> Need this interface in the later sysfs pmu lookup.
> 
> struct kobject *sysfs_get_kobject(struct file *file);
> Return the relative kobject of the sysfs file.

Ick, no.  Why would you ever have the file, yet not have the kobject
already?  Something is really wrong if this is needed.  Or strange.  Or
maybe both :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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