Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:07:42 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kobjects: drop child->parent ref at unregistration
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:41:23PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > For now, I'd recommend dropping it from your tree Andrew, as it might
> > cause odd issues on device removal (not quite sure though...)
> 
> But then there's the counter-argument: If the patch does cause any odd 
> issues to shake loose, learning about them in advance by exposing the 
> patch in the -mm tree would be worthwhile.
> 
> Sounds like it's time for an executive decision...  :-)

Heh.  I'm not ignoring the patch, and will apply it if I test it out and
see that it doesn't break anything.  Then I will let it bake in -mm for
a while.

I just don't want to rush it as this area of the kobject core is nasty
and full of tricks that I always forget.

Let me finish writing up this documentation on what I do remember and
then I'll attack the block device patch and this one.

thanks,

greg k-h
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