Linux kernel latest source http://mirrors.hust.edu.cn/git/linux-next.git/atom?h=master 2014-01-05T03:56:40+00:00 2014-01-05T03:56:40+00:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org 2014-01-05T03:56:40+00:00 urn:sha1:eb4c69033fd1dda8b60e48af3accdd578c2e59ed This reverts commit eee031649707db3c9920d9498f8d03819b74fc23. Jeff writes: I have no objections to reverting it. There were concerns from Al Viro that it'd be tough to get right by callers and I had assumed it got dropped after that. I had planned on using it in my btrfs sysfs exports patchset but came up with a better way. Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 2013-09-26T23:17:33+00:00 Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com 2013-09-11T17:00:30+00:00 urn:sha1:eee031649707db3c9920d9498f8d03819b74fc23 A common way to handle kobject lifetimes in embedded in objects with different lifetime rules is to pair the kobject with a struct completion. This introduces a kobj_completion structure that can be used in place of the pairing, along with several convenience functions for initialization, release, and put-and-wait. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>