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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: make sure kobj->ktype is set before kobject_init
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:26:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196368000.7903.28.camel@lov.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196367597.7903.25.camel@lov.site>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-29 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-27 23:02 [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code Greg KH
2007-11-27 23:03 ` [RFC] sample kobject implementation Greg KH
2007-11-27 23:04 ` [RFC] Sample kset/ktype/kobject implementation Greg KH
2007-11-28 16:35 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 6:11 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 9:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 20:39 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 22:11 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-30 5:07 ` Dave Young
2007-11-30 5:57 ` Dave Young
2007-11-30 14:51 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-30 6:41 ` Greg KH
2007-11-27 23:10 ` [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code Kyle McMartin
2007-11-27 23:29 ` Greg KH
2007-11-27 23:21 ` Frans Pop
2007-11-28 3:50 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-11-29 5:46 ` Greg KH
2007-11-28 9:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 12:35 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 15:52 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 16:03 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 16:09 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 17:06 ` Greg KH
2007-11-28 19:18 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 10:12 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 15:47 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 16:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 16:55 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 17:52 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 5:59 ` Greg KH
2007-11-28 11:45 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 12:23 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 15:48 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 15:57 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 16:12 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 16:36 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 16:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 17:00 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 6:08 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 7:50 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 9:35 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 10:53 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 6:02 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 6:04 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 9:41 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-28 19:03 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-28 19:28 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 19:36 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-28 19:46 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 20:42 ` [PATCH] kobject: make sure kobj->ktype is set before kobject_init Alan Stern
2007-11-28 20:52 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-28 21:45 ` Greg KH
2007-11-28 22:00 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-28 22:38 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 10:05 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 10:59 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 11:48 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 15:54 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 16:04 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 16:21 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 21:53 ` kobject_init rewrite Greg KH
2007-11-29 21:54 ` Greg KH
2007-11-30 9:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 22:16 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 22:24 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 17:06 ` [PATCH] kobject: make sure kobj->ktype is set before kobject_init Alan Stern
2007-11-29 17:17 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 18:04 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 18:33 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 19:05 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 19:51 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 20:09 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 20:19 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 20:26 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2007-11-30 9:30 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-11-29 6:18 ` [RFC] New kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code Greg KH
2007-11-29 15:42 ` Alan Stern
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