On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:55:11PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2014, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:43:56PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > On 01/04/14 19:06, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > - if (t && !t->release) > > > > - pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): does not have a release() " > > > > - "function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n", > > > > - kobject_name(kobj), kobj); > > > > - > > > > > > Has it been considered to issue a warning if no release function has > > > been defined and free_completion == NULL instead of removing the above > > > debug message entirely ? I think even with this patch applied it is > > > still wrong to invoke kobject_put() on an object without defining a > > > release function. > > > > This patch isn't going to be applied, and I've reverted the original > > commit, so there shouldn't be any issues anymore with this code. > > Why? This patch does the same thing as > eee031649707db3c9920d9498f8d03819b74fc23, but it's smaller. So why did you > accept eee031649707db3c9920d9498f8d03819b74fc23 and not this? I have now reverted that commit, it will not be in 3.14, so consider it rejected as well :) thanks, greg k-h -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel