From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core update for 2.6.4
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:04:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040316070409.A28022@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1079395149503@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 03:59:09PM -0800
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 03:59:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.1608.84.16, 2004/03/15 14:39:18-08:00, greg@kroah.com
>
> kref: add kref structure to kernel tree.
>
> Based on the kobject structure, but much smaller and simpler to use.
Didn't everyone who reviewed this say it's useless bloat. Andi even got
so far as calling it obsfucation, given that hides simple things behind
an overly complex and wastefull abstraction.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-15 23:55 [BK PATCH] Driver Core update for 2.6.4 Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` [PATCH] " Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-16 7:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-03-16 9:51 ` Andrew Morton
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2004-03-16 16:14 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-16 19:40 ` Greg KH
2004-03-17 0:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-19 9:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-19 11:52 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
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