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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: adding an "fs" directory under /sys
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:55:09 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C611302B07C17@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com>; from Charles.Lever@netapp.com on Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:51:48PM -0700
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:51:48PM -0700, Lever, Charles wrote:
> so, i take it you would prefer me to add a kobject to the
> nfs_server struct for my purposes, rather than use the
> unused kobject that is *already* embedded in the
> super_block?

I think Al wants you to understand what you're trying to do first.
Please read up about the kobject lifetime rules first, if you can make
the nfs_server lifetime work with kobjects expectation go for it, but
don't think it's easy.