From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: dougthompson@xmission.com
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] drivers edac fix edac_mc sysfs completion code
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:55:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070714035514.GC11633@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4697ae46.2A5hpktamwpYrgDY%dougthompson@xmission.com>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:54:30AM -0600, dougthompson@xmission.com wrote:
> From: doug thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
>
> This patch refactors the 'releasing' of kobjects for the edac_mc type
> of device. The correct pattern of kobject release is followed.
>
> As internal kobjs are allocated they bump a ref count on the top
> level kobj. It in turn has a module ref count on the edac_core module.
> When internal kobjects are released, they dec the ref count on the
> top level kobj. When the top level kobj reaches zero, it decrements
> the ref count on the edac_core object, allow it to be unloaded,
> as all resources have all now been released.
>
> CC: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
> Signed-off-by: doug thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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2007-07-13 16:54 [PATCH 7/8] drivers edac fix edac_mc sysfs completion code dougthompson
2007-07-14 3:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2007-07-09 17:10 dougthompson
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