Re: [GPIO]implement sleeping GPIO chip removal

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:15:40PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:07:05PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > If we see a shortcoming like this, we fix it and do not magically work
> > > around it.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > Thomas is right.  kobject reference counting is the correct solution.
> > Nack on this approach.
> 
> Only use a kobject if you want to be in the sysfs hierarchy (which I
> don't think you want to do here.)  If you want proper reference
> counting, use a 'struct kref' instead.

Oops, yes. I always confuse those.

Thanks for pointing it out - probably not the first time :)

       tglx
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