Re: kobjects, sysfs and the driver model make my head hurt

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why on earth does it return the value of its argument?
>>
>>Maybe for the same reason 'strcpy' returns 'dest'. It allows you to use
>>the function in a function parameter :
> 
> 
> It also makes calling code cleaner when copying refcounted objects:
> 
> e.g.
> 	new->foo = foo_get(old->foo);
> 	new->bar = bar_get(old->bar);
> 
> otherwise, you'd have to do:
> 
> 	foo_get(old->foo);
> 	new->foo = old->foo;
> 	bar_get(old->bar);
> 	new->bar = old->bar;

well...

	struct blah *foo_ref = foo;
	... not using foo_ref ...
	foo_get(foo_ref);
	... using foo_ref ...
	foo_put(foo_ref);

versus

	struct blah *foo_ref;
	... not using foo_ref ...
	foo_ref = foo_get(foo);
	... using foo_ref ...
	foo_put(foo_ref);

I suppose it's a matter of taste rather than necessity.

As a tangent, if kobject_get is so small now, why not just make it 
static inline to optimize this case?

	Jeff