Re: [PATCH 23/20] driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device_shutdown.

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Sat May 23 2009 - 18:16:24 EST


On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 22:13, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not
> clean up any kernel data structures. ÂTherefore don't put the kobjects
> for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char.
>
> This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while
> we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Kay
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