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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:32:05 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] git 2.6.31-rc3'ish: "<kobject> does not have a release()
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:50:19PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:28:01PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > ie a ktype with no release method.  And indeed, the release method was
> > removed in:
> > 
> > commit 7a6a41615bfb2f03ce797bc24104c50b42c935e5
> > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > Date:   Sat Dec 22 21:18:25 2007 -0800
> > 
> >     Modules: remove unneeded release function
> > 
> > ie you did it yourself!
> > 
> > What's the deal?
> 
> Oh I'm sure it was a cunning way of deluding oneself, and the entire
> global community on top of it, too! ;)
> Else it must have been successful sabotage by a certain M$ collaborator
> employee I'd wager :)
> 
> Many thanks for taking part in this issue, thanks to you it sounds like we're
> rather close to a solution now...

Odd, I really have no idea what was going on 2 years ago in this area,
sorry.

Kay, we were cleaning up the kobject name stuff then, and we thought
that this release function wasn't used anymore.  But in looking at the
code, I can't see where the kobject is actually freed.  What am I
missing?

confused,

greg k-h

> 
> Andreas Mohr