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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:02:55 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kref: add function for reading kref value
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:44:52PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> We can easily get kref refcount value by accesing
> kref->refcount but it is better to have a function
> for this.

No, you should NEVER need the value of the kref, if you do, you are
doing something wrong.

What code needs this patch?

greg k-h