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From: "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
To: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	"Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code updated
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:54:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8e1da0712192354k3bce177fi3d30b5737c7d7a9e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220003031.GA15129@kroah.com>

On Dec 20, 2007 8:30 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for your last round of review comments and changes to
> the kobject documentation.
>
> I now have over 130 patches reworking the kset/ktype and kobject apis in
> the kernel tree, and here is the updated documentation and example code
> that shows how things work now.
>
> Things different from the last time around are the kobject_add() and
> kobject_init() functions now take a bunch of required parameters, and
> the kobject cleanup code is much more forgiving.
>
> I want to drop kobject_unregister() but as this patch series is so big
> already, I think it's time to let it bake in -mm and push into 2.6.25
> before attempting it.
[--snip--]

Hi, greg

How about add a kobject_remove function and temporarily keep the
kobject_unregister as below until the 2.6.25:

kobject_unregister(...)
{
       ...
        kobject_remove();
        kobject_uevent();
        ...
}

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20  0:30 Greg KH
2007-12-20  0:31 ` [RFC] sample kobject implementation code Greg KH
2007-12-20  0:31 ` [RFC] sample kset/ktype/kobject " Greg KH
2008-01-03 15:14   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-12-20  4:26 ` [RFC] kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code updated Alan Stern
2007-12-20  7:27   ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-20 21:48   ` Greg KH
2007-12-20  6:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-20 21:27   ` Greg KH
2007-12-20 22:03     ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-20 22:20       ` Greg KH
2007-12-20 22:06     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-20 22:12       ` Greg KH
2007-12-20 22:29         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-20 22:42           ` Greg KH
2007-12-20 22:48             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-20 22:57     ` Alan Stern
2007-12-20  7:54 ` Dave Young [this message]
2007-12-20  8:02   ` Greg KH
2007-12-20  9:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-20 21:16   ` Greg KH

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