On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote: > It would remove another implicit "magic" from the core, which is good.
Yes. > Otherwise we will need to introduce a kobject_orphan(), to disassociate > an object from its parent, which would be kind of weird, just to break > out of the default core logic. > > I would expect this patch to have an effect only at the pretty complex > refcounting users of the driver core, which are SCSI and USB, and I > expect the people involved are good prepared now, to fix such possible > bugs, should they show up. :) The person who has to be convinced is Greg. :-) Alan Stern - 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/
