From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Add kref_read and kref_put_last primitives
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:43:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040727104311.A18503@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040727070915.GC1270@obelix.in.ibm.com>; from kiran@in.ibm.com on Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0530
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> struct kref does just that. The kref api are just abstractions for
> refcounting which i presume is recommended for all refcounters in the
> kernel. I am just converting the struct file.f_count refcounter
> to use kref with this patch.
So what exactly does the API make easier? APIs for the APIs sense don't
make much sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-27 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-26 14:48 [patch] Add kref_read and kref_put_last primitives Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-26 14:56 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-26 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-27 7:09 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-27 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-02 20:08 ` Greg KH
2004-08-03 5:42 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-08-03 6:51 ` Greg KH
2004-08-03 7:45 ` Dipankar Sarma
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20040727104311.A18503@infradead.org \
--to=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=kiran@in.ibm.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.