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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