From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>,
kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com, warthog19@eaglescrag.net,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, rick.jones2@hp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4, v7] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:12:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080301051247.GB19353@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080229002341.GA21420@ldl.fc.hp.com>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:23:41PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Hi Gary, John, Kenji-san, et. al,
>
> Well, first Gary was on holiday for a month, and then I was on
> holiday for a month, but I'm back now, and have refreshed this
> patch series against 2.6.25.
>
> The major thing that happened was all the kobject changes
> (learned my lesson about taking long holidays when holding onto a
> largish chunk of code that hasn't been accepted yet ;), and so
> the only real change is in patch 3/4.
>
> The kobject changes were nice, btw. In the prior versions of this
> series, I could never figure out why my kobjects weren't getting
> released when their refcounts went to 1, and had some hacky code
> in there to manually release them. (I'm sure I was doing
> something wrong, but I couldn't figure out what.) I was able to
> remove that hack in this series because the kobjects are working
> the way they're supposed to.
>
> I did turn on kobject debugging, and all seems well except for
> one little thing. I based my module (pci_slot) on acpiphp, and
> the kobject system complains:
>
> kobject: 'acpiphp' (a00000020476aed0): does not have a release()
> function, it is broken and must be fixed.
>
> kobject: 'pci_slot' (a000000204791e50): does not have a release()
> function, it is broken and must be fixed.
>
> Not quite sure what to do about these yet, but since no one has
> fixed acpiphp yet, I'm thinking that I can't be *too* wrong. :)
Um, the obvious solution of providing a release function for these
kobjects is somehow not correct?
Please do that, otherwise the code is wrong (and yes, acpiphp might be
wrong as well, I haven't seen that report yet.)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 0:23 [PATCH 0/4, v7] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] Remove path attribute from sgi_hotplug Alex Chiang
2008-03-03 18:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-03 18:54 ` Prarit Bhargava
2008-03-05 0:19 ` Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] Construct one fakephp slot per pci slot Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] Introduce pci_slot Alex Chiang
2008-03-01 5:24 ` Greg KH
2008-03-03 20:56 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-04 5:58 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 23:30 ` [PATCH 3/4, v8] " Alex Chiang
2008-02-29 0:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver Alex Chiang
2008-03-01 5:25 ` Greg KH
2008-03-01 14:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-04 5:49 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 18:18 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-04 19:30 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 20:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-04 20:12 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-03-04 23:09 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-05 1:11 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-05 20:20 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-05 20:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-06 2:07 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:10 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:13 ` [PATCH 3/(3+1)] " Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:17 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:19 ` [PATCH 4/(3+1)] Add quirks for " Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 13:28 ` [PATCH 4/4] " Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-11 16:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-03-12 5:51 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-12 4:08 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 18:04 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-03-11 19:14 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-12 11:33 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-13 3:24 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-14 2:16 ` Gary Hade
2008-03-14 5:34 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-18 20:49 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-12 10:50 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-11 23:34 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-03-12 12:59 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-03-04 22:58 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-04 23:15 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 23:46 ` Alex Chiang
2008-03-01 5:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-03-03 23:35 ` [PATCH 0/4, v7] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects Alex Chiang
2008-03-04 5:56 ` Greg KH
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