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From: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Organization: National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:20:50 +0530
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On Thursday 06 March 2008 10:35:14 pm Greg KH wrote:
<snip>
> Where exactly in the code does that happen?  kobjects should not be
> "reused" as that implies that they are static, and not dynamically
> allocated, right?
>
> Which kobject is this?
Yes, its static. Here's the code from virt/kvm_main.c:1269

static struct sys_device kvm_sysdev = {
        .id = 0,
        .cls = &kvm_sysdev_class,
};

this sys_device is being registered/unregistered when kvm-intel is 
loaded/unloaded.
>
> Ugh, is this the sys_device stuff?  I hate that code...
>
Yes it is! But, why do you hate it ?

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regards,
balaji rao
3rd year,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
National Institute of Technology, Karnataka
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