From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug (?) in subsystem kset refcounts
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:42:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031109194211.GA1932@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0311091151480.20291-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:01:41PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> It's unfortunate that initialization of various parts of a kobject or
> driver-model object is so order-sensitive. Worse yet is the fact that
> these dependencies are not mentioned in Documentation/kobject.txt,
> Documentation/driver-model, include/linux/kobject.h, or
> include/linux/device.h. Wouldn't it be a good idea to add, for example to
> Documentation/kobject.txt, a description of which members of struct
> kobject must be initialized before calling kobject_init() and which must
> be initialized before calling kobject_add()? And of course to do the same
> for all the other important structures as well.
I agree. More documentation is definitely needed. I know Pat has some
documentation changes queued up, but patches to update portions that are
missing (such as these requirements) will always be gladly accepted.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-09 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-09 3:20 Bug (?) in subsystem kset refcounts Alan Stern
2003-11-09 4:29 ` Greg KH
2003-11-09 17:01 ` Alan Stern
2003-11-09 19:42 ` Greg KH [this message]
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