Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932754AbXK2Rwi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:52:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761915AbXK2RwV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:52:21 -0500 Received: from mtagate8.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.157]:1477 "EHLO mtagate8.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763431AbXK2RwU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:52:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:52:17 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck To: Alan Stern Cc: Greg KH , , Kay Sievers , Jonathan Corbet , Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code Message-ID: <20071129185217.7255f8fb@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20071129172833.0203a75b@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Organization: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrung:?= Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=F6blingen?= Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 24 On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:55:43 -0500 (EST), Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > > Unfortunately kobjects don't have an owner field. In practice this > > > means that it isn't possible to pin the owner of some random kobject -- > > > you have to know where the kobject came from or what it's embedded in. > > > All users of kobjects need to work this way. > > > > Yeah, that is what the-patchset-I-have-to-dig-around-for does: > > Introduce an owner field in the kobject for pinning the module. (IIRC, > > you even did some of the patches?) > > Are these two patches what you mean? They are a little out-of-date > now, but the main idea hasn't changed. Yes, thanks. I had also a module-reference-count part that I need to resurrect. - 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/