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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol_(get|put)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:29:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173580154.32234.161.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173501095.26213.405.camel@localhost>

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 02:31 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
> 
> When a module uses symbol_get() to increase the ref count of another
> module, there is no record what module called symbol_get().  A module
> can
> show up as having other users, but there is no way to tell who those
> users are.

Hi Mauro,

	Interesting: in general you cannot tell who is using a module, but for
this case it makes sense.  Your patch was linewrapped here, but it all
looks fine.

Thanks,
Rusty.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-11  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-10  4:31 [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol_(get|put) Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-03-11  2:29 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-03-11  8:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-11 21:12   ` Oleg Verych
2007-03-12 14:07   ` Trent Piepho
2007-03-12 22:13     ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-13  6:33       ` Trent Piepho

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