From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161498AbXDSN1G (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:27:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161499AbXDSN1F (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:27:05 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:40145 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161498AbXDSN1D (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:27:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:29:41 +0200 From: Cornelia Huck To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-kernel , Alan Stern , Greg K-H , Rusty Russell , dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism Message-ID: <20070419152941.7c4b7ff2@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <46264201.3060007@gmail.com> References: <20070416193619.4659a847@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070417184110.GJ10619@htj.dyndns.org> <20070418170652.7bee0952@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <46264201.3060007@gmail.com> Organization: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-Legal: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Johann Weihen =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrung:?= Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6blingen?= Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:06:25 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Heh heh, I'm amazed it actually works. Agreed that the list walking > isn't pretty but adding completion to each kobject still feels like too > much of overhead just for release waiting. Any better ideas? Not really. But I'm more in favour on adding a new field than on adding complicated code. (Although, the whole device infrastructure wouldn't fare bad with some diet...)