Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759809AbXIYFgr (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:36:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752847AbXIYFgk (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:36:40 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:35341 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754408AbXIYFgj (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:36:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:35:47 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Satyam Sharma Cc: Andrew Morton , Kamalesh Babulal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 Message-ID: <20070925053547.GA6211@kroah.com> References: <20070918011841.2381bd93.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46EF96CC.1080807@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070918022739.f25c2846.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070918191740.GC11083@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1320 Lines: 38 On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:51:54PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:04:48PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > > > > But wait ... isn't that a statically-allocated kobject, which were > > > supposed to be "naughty" in the first place? > > > > Yes it is, if you want to dynamically create it, please do. > > Sorry for being late to reply, but do you still want such a patch (i.e. > convert static to dynamic allocation)? Yes, I'll gladly take such patches. > I read elsewhere on this thread that you'd merge Kamalesh's patch and > fix it up to also use kobject_name() yourself. But it's a small/trivial > driver, so I think just converting it to dynamic allocation right now > itself (when we've noticed it already) is probably better (?) Sure that would be great to have. > [ BTW I don't see the fix in your git trees or quilt queue. So I'll > make a patch on top of 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 itself. ] I'm behind in updating my patch queue, sorry, other things came up :( thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/