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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/18] fs: add inode reference coutn read accessor
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 03:24:10 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:21:22PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> To remove most of the remaining direct references to the inode
> reference count, add an iref_read() accessor function to read the
> current reference count.  New users of this function should be
> frowned upon, as there is rarely a good reason for looking at the
> current reference count.

IMHO adding this is rather pointless, it's not really buying us
anything.

But at least it looks correct.