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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: chas williams <chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: duncan.sands@wanadoo.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM] add reference counting to atm_dev
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:09:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030515190922.GA10161@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305151432.h4FEW5Gi012599@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:32:05AM -0400, chas williams wrote:
> In message <20030515052041.GA5995@kroah.com>,Greg KH writes:
> >It's not really bothering me, just wondering when it will go away (I see
> >it when building one of the USB ATM drivers...)
> 
> the MOD_* functions in the speedtch driver don't need to be there.  
> since 2.3.something (if i remember correctly) the reference counting
> has been handled by the upper layer (ala fops_get/fops_put).  the
> following patch removes these extra bits:

Thanks, didn't know they could be removed.  The speedtch author told me
a while ago that the fops didn't protect it...

I'll go apply this patch.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-15 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-14 20:20 [PATCH][ATM] add reference counting to atm_dev chas williams
2003-05-14 20:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 22:16   ` chas williams
2003-05-15  4:30     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-15 14:39       ` chas williams
2003-05-15 20:10         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-15 20:20           ` chas williams
2003-05-16  0:14             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-16 16:05               ` chas williams
2003-05-16 20:44                 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-16  0:19             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 20:59 ` Greg KH
2003-05-14 21:02   ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 21:57     ` Greg KH
2003-05-14 22:21   ` chas williams
2003-05-15  5:20     ` Greg KH
2003-05-15 14:32       ` chas williams
2003-05-15 19:09         ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-05-15 19:17           ` chas williams
2003-05-20 12:25             ` Duncan Sands
2003-05-16  0:12         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-16 14:40         ` Duncan Sands
2003-05-16 15:39           ` chas williams
2003-05-16 18:48             ` Francois Romieu
2003-05-22 17:59   ` Linux 2.4 scheduler is RTOS-alike? Ming Lei
2003-05-22 20:01   ` Ming Lei
2003-05-22 20:37     ` Elladan
2003-05-22 20:47     ` Elladan

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