From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756560Ab0I3WAg (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:00:36 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:51087 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753927Ab0I3WAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:00:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:00:23 +0200 From: "Hans J. Koch" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Greg KH , Greg KH , "Hans J. Koch" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] uio: Simplify the lifetime logic of struct uio_device. Message-ID: <20100930220023.GB4337@local> References: <20100917205946.GF2522@local> <20100924104555.GC1819@silverbox.local> <20100924173106.GA4966@silverbox.local> <20100925003308.GA29910@suse.de> <20100926192142.GA7252@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:46:56PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Embed struct device into struct uio_device, and use > the refcounting and the release method of struct device > to control struct uio_device. > > This allows device_create and device_destroy to be replaced > with the more standard device_register and device_unregister, > and allows the struct device reference count to act as a > reference count on struct idev as well. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Eric, just to give you a feedback: I simply didn't find the time to have a look at your patches. I have a 200% workload ATM in my daily job. I hope I can have a look at the weekend. Sorry for the delay, but you're not forgotten ;-) Thanks, Hans