On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:00:52PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > See Documentation/kdbus.txt for more details. ... which has nothing whatsoever on object lifetime rules. Could you folks please document that somewhere? What pins what, what state transitions are possible, etc. BTW, the calling conventions for your foo_new() are annoying - instead of "return -E... or 0, storing the reference to new object in var parameter passed as the last argument", could you please just return ERR_PTR(-E...) on error, a pointer to new object on success and to hell with those struct foo **foo in the argument lists? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html