From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.6.0 EDD enhancements
Date: 19 Dec 2003 16:03:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071867809.1943.39.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031219143749.A8351@lists.us.dell.com>
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 15:37, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Ok, I'll gladly make that change, but I still need a handle on the
> sdev_gendev.kobj in order to make the symlink:
the scsi device does its refcounting through the generic device (and
hence the kobject), so scsi_device_get() does get a handle on the
kobject for you (as well as doing some checks with the SCSI state model
and getting a handle on the underlying module).
> static inline struct device *
> sdev_to_gendev(struct scsi_device *sdev)
> {
> return &sdev->sdev_gendev;
> }
I'm not too sure about this...exporting such a function might be seen as
encouraging further abuse...
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-19 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-12-19 19:01 ` [RFC] 2.6.0 EDD enhancements Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 20:23 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-19 20:37 ` Matt Domsch
2003-12-19 21:03 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2003-12-28 20:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-29 20:05 ` Matt Domsch
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