Re: [PATCH] Driver core: fix refcounting bug

Alan Stern
2007-01-09T14:53:44Z

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:23:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:06:44 -0500 (EST)
> > Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > This patch (as832) fixes a newly-introduced bug in the driver core.
> > > When a kobject is assigned to a kset, it must acquire a reference to
> > > the kset.

> > OK, I give up. What kernel is this against?
>
> I think this is against my private tree, with the "driver-class" patches
> that are not in -mm (for good reason at this point in time.) Right
> Alan?

That's exactly right. And it's also why I didn't CC: Andrew on the
original patch submission.

Alan Stern