Re: [BK PATCH] add SMBIOS tables to sysfs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:37:19PM -0500, Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com wrote:
> Looks good. You can go ahead and add it to your tree. 

Ok, will do, thanks for testing.

> I do have one question, though. Here:
> 
> > +static struct kobj_type ktype_smbios = {
> > +	.sysfs_ops	= &smbios_attr_ops,
> > +	.default_attrs	= def_attrs,
> > +	/* statically allocated, no release method necessary */
> > +};
> 
> I have no .release method because I have not kmalloc'ed any 
> instances of this struct. Do I need to re-add a release
> method here?

No, you are ok here.  Static kobj_type structures are ok for 2.6.  For
2.7 we will probably fix up all of this properly, we've learned a lot in
the past few years :)

thanks,

greg k-h