From: Luben Tuikov <tluben@rogers.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce scsi_host_alloc
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 19:20:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE121A7.8010806@rogers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030606204241.GA28264@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> scsi_host_get/scsi_host_put are the refcounting primites for
> struct Scsi_Host and there are more users then just the host drivers.
> (and there will be more soon). It's an idiom in linux to use get/put
> for those and make put free it when the refcount reaches zero.
I know about the get/put idiom, refcounting, etc.
*But* your use is alloc <--> put. This is what throws me off.
Either go with alloc <--> free or with get <--> put. But cross-breeding
them is not that good an idea.
--
Luben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-06 8:01 [PATCH] introduce scsi_host_alloc Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 11:40 ` Jamie Lenehan
2003-06-06 11:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 20:24 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 20:30 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-06-06 20:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-06 23:20 ` Luben Tuikov [this message]
2003-06-07 6:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-07 18:55 ` Luben Tuikov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-03 20:32 Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-05 20:50 ` Mike Anderson
2003-06-05 21:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
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