From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.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: 25 Mar 2008 10:57:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve3bi0s3.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206382109.3494.69.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 9:57 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 [this message]
2008-03-26 4:16 ` Greg KH
2008-03-26 5:07 ` Kay Sievers
2008-03-26 5:23 ` Greg KH
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