On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:41:44PM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > From: devel [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger > > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:30 AM > > To: Greg KH <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected]; Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>; > > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > > [email protected]; [email protected]; > > [email protected]; [email protected]; > > [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset > > > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:56:05 +0100 > > Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:53:32AM -0700, [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > From: Dexuan Cui <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info") > > > > > > > > Without the patch, a device can't be thoroughly destroyed, because > > > > vmbus_device_register() -> kset_create_and_add() still holds a reference > > > > to the hv_device's device.kobj. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <[email protected]> > > > > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> > > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > > > Why is this marked for stable when the patch it "fixes" is in 4.15-rc1? > > > > It doesn't need to go to stable. > > Hi Greg, > May I know the status of the patch?
It's still in my "to-apply" queue. As it's only a 4.15-final thing, don't worry, it will get there... thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
