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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: bug 2400
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:06:56 -0700
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:07:12PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 23:33, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > How is unregister_cdrom(&cd->cdi) called if the device is not open?
> 
> OK, the attached does everything correctly (as I should have done at
> first) by using a kobject to hold the compound references.

Why not just use a kref for this?  That's what they were created for?
:)

thanks,

greg k-h