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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...>

To: Greg KH <greg@...>

Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when getting disconnected

Date: Monday, March 31, 2008 - 5:27 pm

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote:


quoted text> > Greg, please look at the change again. Before kobject_put(kobj->parent)
> > was done in kobject_cleanup() and so the parent would only be freed when
> > all its children are gone. Now parent is deleted early, even if its
> > children are still referenced by other users. This is lifetime rule
> > change and should really be announced as such.
> Ugh, this was done because of scsi, they required that if you really
> were deleting the parent, you wanted it gone.

What is the exact meaning of "gone" here please?

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Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Johannes Berg, (Wed Apr 2, 5:17 am)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sun Mar 30, 5:51 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Johannes Berg, (Mon Mar 31, 4:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 2:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 1:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 2:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 4:42 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Jiri Kosina, (Mon Mar 31, 5:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Kay Sievers, (Mon Mar 31, 6:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 4:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 6:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 11:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Linus Torvalds, (Mon Mar 31, 2:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Mar 31, 7:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Mon Mar 31, 7:51 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Mar 31, 9:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Greg KH, (Sun Mar 30, 6:22 pm)

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Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Mar 31, 4:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] evdev: Release eventual input device grabs when ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Mar 30, 7:19 pm)

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