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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>,
	OpenIB <general@lists.openfabrics.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] IB kernel modules and the kobject release() method
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:33:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adad4738l3v.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090808034817.GA30697@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:48:17 -0700")


 > No, it still makes sense :)

So what's the fix for this?  If even you have trouble understanding
kobject lifetimes and the requirement for a release function, is there
hope for anyone else?

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-10 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <e2e108260908061146y47ae45f5j6b8085d44cd1c45b@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <adaocqsg339.fsf@cisco.com>
     [not found]       ` <e2e108260908061229v2c605aabp7cf66cbe568d6755@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <adafxc4g1e7.fsf@cisco.com>
2009-08-07  7:26           ` [ofa-general] IB kernel modules and the kobject release() method Bart Van Assche
2009-08-08  3:48             ` Greg KH
2009-08-10 20:33               ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-08-11 12:56                 ` Kay Sievers

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