On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:15:20PM -0800, Mike Christie wrote: > If you look at the attached patch (dm-kobj.patch) built and tested against > test10-dm1 you will see kobjects used as a replacement for the "atomic_t > holders" value in dm_table and mapped_device. There is no sysfs :) md_ktype.sysfs_ops ? > and I did not modify any of the get/put semantics. The only change > is the kobject infrastructure manages the ref count and calls the > release function when the count goes to zero. ok, so your patch does the same as the current code in a slightly more verbose way ? > With this patch, I can use the callback method, the sysfs junk will not be > coupled to the core code, no abstractions are broken and we will all use > the same ref count. Better? I don't think I really see why you must have the reference counting done with kobjects rather than the current method. Remember I'm also maintaining a 2.4 version of dm, and need a really good reason to have the implementationsh diverge. - Joe the obtuse.
