Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:00:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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Subject: Re: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:

> It would remove another implicit "magic" from the core, which is good.

Yes.

> Otherwise we will need to introduce a kobject_orphan(), to disassociate
> an object from its parent, which would be kind of weird, just to break
> out of the default core logic.
> 
> I would expect this patch to have an effect only at the pretty complex
> refcounting users of the driver core, which are SCSI and USB, and I
> expect the people involved are good prepared now, to fix such possible
> bugs, should they show up. :)

The person who has to be convinced is Greg.  :-)

Alan Stern

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