Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: make sure kobj->ktype is set before
	kobject_init
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:26:40 +0100
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On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:20 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:09 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:

> > > > There's another good reason for not assigning the name in
> > > > kobject_init(): Code that uses kobjects (like the driver core) doesn't
> > > > set the name until later.
> > > 
> > > That can be done at any stage, I guess. We will rip out the name in the
> > > struct device anyway.
> > 
> > Are you also going to change all the places in the kernel where the
> > device name (.bus_id) isn't set until after device_initialize() has
> > been called?
> 
> Yes, I already have a patch that does that for all stuff that was needed
> on my boxes.

To be exact, bus_id will be removed from the device, and the device name
will be set and retrieved directly from the kobject.

Kay

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