linux-kernel - Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] [ocfs2] Use a kobject instead of a kset

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Message-ID: <20110204175751.GA21472@noexit>
Date:	Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:58:01 -0800
From:	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
To:	dann.frazier@...onical.com
Cc:	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] [ocfs2] Use a kobject instead of a kset

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:40:27AM -0700, dann.frazier@...onical.com wrote:
> From: dann frazier <dann.frazier@...onical.com>
> 
> We currently allocate a kset and add attributes to its internal kobject.
> However, Documentation/kobject.txt says only the kset code should manipulate
> this internal object, and we can get the same results by just creating our
> own kobject and avoiding a kset altogether.

	Hmm, is this actually valid?  I thought you had to be a kset to
have children.  Did this change at some point?

Joel

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