Re: [-mm PATCH] sysdev_unregister() should call kobject_del()

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:25:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:56:58PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > While playing with hotplug memory remove on 2.6.24-mm1, I 
> > > noticed that /sysfs directory entries are not getting removed.
> > > 
> > > sysdev_unregister() used to call kobject_unregister().
> > > But in 2.6.24-mm1, its only dropping the ref. It should
> > > call kobject_del() to remove the object. Correct ?
> > > 
> > > With this change, the directories are getting removed
> > > correctly. Comments ?
> > 
> > Ick, no, this shouldn't be needed, someone else must be holding a
> > reference to the kobject device somewhere.  See the kobject documenation
> > for more info.
> > 
> > I'll try to see where we grab 2 references...
> 
> I will take a closer look then. I was taking easy way out :(

Hm, I don't see anything obvious in the sys.c core.  What code is
controlling these objects that you are creating and removing from the
system?

thanks,

greg k-h