Re: [PATCH 4/5] osduld: Use device->release instead of internal kref

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On 10/29/2009 08:03 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 19:50 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> Some thing like below. 
>>
>> There is to much knolage of device in my opinion. To much fidling
>> of private device members. What when some new members are added?
> 
> What private device members ... the pieces you fill in are the public
> ones.  If you want a macro to do that, I'm sure Greg would be
> amenable ...
> 
>> I hate it.
> 
> Because you have to type six more lines of code?  To me it looks cleaner
> because there's only a single allocation instead of two and now no need
> of chaining destructors because everything goes together thus making the
> lifetime rules more obvious and robust.
> 
> It also saves memory because it has two fewer pointers.
> 
> James
> 

OK I'll roll up a patch that introduces a device_init helper
and a patch for Greg that exchanges my helper with an export.

But I will have to test it so only next week.

Thanks for the review. Is that the only thing?

Boaz
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