Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Then the object will continue to exist, and the sysfs
file will continue to exist, and you won't get a new glue directory.
In fact, what you describe is a problem with *your* patch, exactly
because you introduce another counter that is *not* the reference
count, and now you have the problem with "old directory kobject is
still live, but I removed the sysfs part, and now I'm creating a new
object with the same name".
object with the same name".
Hmm?
Hmm?
object with the same name".
Hmm?
Hmm?
[...]
think anybody argues against that, you are absolutely right.