On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote:


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> > 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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Jiri Kosina
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