From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
"Van De Ven, Arjan" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fixing the main programmer thinko with the device model
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:16:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080326041631.GB28224@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ve3bi0s3.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:57:32AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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?
Sure, I have no objection to that. It's just that the reference count
"issue" really doesn't seem to be one on sanely designed busses :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-26 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 15:39 Fixing the main programmer thinko with the device model James Bottomley
2008-03-24 17:58 ` Greg KH
2008-03-24 18:08 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-25 9:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-26 4:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-03-26 5:07 ` Kay Sievers
2008-03-26 5:23 ` Greg KH
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