Re: [RFC] kobject/kset/ktype documentation and example code updated

["Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>]

On Dec 20, 2007 8:30 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for your last round of review comments and changes to
> the kobject documentation.
>
> I now have over 130 patches reworking the kset/ktype and kobject apis in
> the kernel tree, and here is the updated documentation and example code
> that shows how things work now.
>
> Things different from the last time around are the kobject_add() and
> kobject_init() functions now take a bunch of required parameters, and
> the kobject cleanup code is much more forgiving.
>
> I want to drop kobject_unregister() but as this patch series is so big
> already, I think it's time to let it bake in -mm and push into 2.6.25
> before attempting it.
[--snip--]

Hi, greg

How about add a kobject_remove function and temporarily keep the
kobject_unregister as below until the 2.6.25:

kobject_unregister(...)
{
       ...
        kobject_remove();
        kobject_uevent();
        ...
}
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