Re: Fixing the main programmer thinko with the device model

Andi Kleen
2008-03-25T09:57:43Z

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:
>
> That's true, but irrelevant (and also soon to be untrue if we get rid of
> the scsi_device class as you and Kay keep requesting). The two calls
> release references on the actual embedded generic device, it's nothing
> to do with entangled lifetime rules.

<heretic thought>Has anybody ever considered just doing away with
the problematic and bug prone and tricky reference counts for kobjects
and switch to a simple garbage collector for them?

-Andi