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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:12:10 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: drop ancient protection against sysfs refcounting
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:55:56PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Back in the days, sysfs seemed to have refcounting issues and subsystems
> needed a completion to be safe. This is not the case anymore, so I2C can
> get rid of this code. There is noone else besides I2C doing something
> like this currently (checked with the attached coccinelle script which
> checks if a release function exists and if it contains a completion).

Have you validated this with DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE enabled?

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