From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/20] driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device_shutdown. Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:15:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1243109591-21611-3-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f168.google.com ([209.85.220.168]:44634 "EHLO mail-fx0-f168.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753075AbZEWWQK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 18:16:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1243109591-21611-3-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 22:13, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman > > device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not > clean up any kernel data structures. =C2=A0Therefore don't put the ko= bjects > 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 Looks good. Acked-by: Kay Sievers Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html