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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:39:15 +0100
From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: drop ancient protection against sysfs refcounting
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:12:10PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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).
>=20
> Have you validated this with DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE enabled?

You saved me, thank you a lot for this pointer! Patch discarded.

I assume other subsystems also moved away from 'struct device_type' for
the release function as well; but this is just a guess for now and I'll
call it a day for today.


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