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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	andre@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] embedded struct device Re: [patch] IDE driver model update
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:29:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021008222917.GA10837@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210081735370.5897-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:42:25PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> _IF_ the last two steps were done by ->release(), your arguments would
> work.  Actually they are done by driver right after the put_device() call.

Yes, and that's wrong :(

> If you are willing to change that (== move all destruction into ->release()) -
> yeah, then embedded struct device will work.  It's a hell of a work though.

It's not that much work, and I'll do it for USB, and for PCI, unless Pat
beats me to it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-07 19:30 [patch] IDE driver model update Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 19:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 19:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-11 23:06   ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-07 19:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 22:42   ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-07 22:51     ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-07 22:58       ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-07 23:06         ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08  2:17           ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 12:21             ` Alan Cox
2002-10-08 12:24               ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 13:05                 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-08 19:18                   ` Andries Brouwer
2002-10-08 13:25                 ` jbradford
2002-10-08 14:31                   ` Ketil Froyn
2002-10-08 21:34                     ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-08 21:57                   ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-08 15:05                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-10-08 18:43             ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 20:47               ` [RFC] embedded struct device " Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 21:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 21:42                   ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-08 21:53                     ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-08 21:57                       ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 22:51                         ` Alan Cox
2002-10-08 21:54                     ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 22:12                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 22:48                       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-08 23:28                         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 22:29                     ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-10-08 21:30                 ` Greg KH

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