On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:06:44AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > This patch (as832) fixes a newly-introduced bug in the driver core. > When a kobject is assigned to a kset, it must acquire a reference to > the kset. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > The bug was introduced in Kay's "unify /sys/class and /sys/bus at > /sys/subsystem" patch. > > I left the assignment of class_dev->kobj.parent as it was, although it is > not needed. The following call to kobject_add() will end up doing the > same thing. > > Alan Stern > > P.S.: Tracking down refcounting bugs is a real pain! I spent an entire > afternoon on this one... :-(
Thanks, I've merged your patch with the one from Kay so we don't introduce a bug along the way. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
