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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] warn when statically-allocated kobjects are used
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:49:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603222249.22620.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060317174352.GA2840@suse.de>

On Friday 17 March 2006 12:43, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:04:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > > +warn:
> > > +	printk("---- begin silly warning ----\n");
> > > +	printk("This is a janitorial warning, not a kernel bug.\n");
> > 
> > technically it IS a kernel bug ;)
> 
> Until we fix up all of the struct bus and decl_subsys() usages in the
> kernel, this should show a lot of false positives...
> 

Plus IIRC ARM creates bunch of platform devices which are statically
allocated. But because they never get unregistered everything works
just fine.

-- 
Dmitry

      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-17  1:30 [RFC][PATCH] warn when statically-allocated kobjects are used Dave Hansen
2006-03-17 16:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-17 17:43   ` Greg KH
2006-03-23  3:49     ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]

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