From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kobjects: drop child->parent ref at unregistration
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:41:23 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0711271235430.3037-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071127170147.GB29109@kroah.com>
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> For now, I'd recommend dropping it from your tree Andrew, as it might
> cause odd issues on device removal (not quite sure though...)
But then there's the counter-argument: If the patch does cause any odd
issues to shake loose, learning about them in advance by exposing the
patch in the -mm tree would be worthwhile.
Sounds like it's time for an executive decision... :-)
Alan Stern
P.S.: I did test the patch by running the g_serial gadget with
usbserial loaded on the host. Disconnecting the gadget while a user
process held the /dev/ttyUSB0 file open didn't cause any problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-27 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-19 15:53 [PATCH] Kobjects: drop child->parent ref at unregistration Alan Stern
2007-11-26 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-27 2:29 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-27 17:01 ` Greg KH
2007-11-27 17:41 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2007-11-27 18:07 ` Greg KH
2007-11-27 20:31 ` Alan Stern
2007-11-29 21:14 ` patch kobject-drop-child-parent-ref-at-unregistration.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
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