Re: Re: BUG in: Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to coredevices (fwd)

[Alan Stern]

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

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