On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:04:20PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > My suggestion: Have kobject_init_ng() accept a ktype pointer but not a
> > parent or name. Instead, make kobject_add_ng() take the parent and
> > name (possibly a kset also). Then when kobject_init_and_add()
> > encounters an error, it shouldn't do a _put() -- the caller can either
> > do the _put() or just do a kfree().
>
> Why not the parent for init()? Isn't it always known at that time?
> I'll dig to be sure.
You are right again, to match up with the driver core methods, we don't
know the parent until add() time.
thanks,
greg k-h
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