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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of
	symbol_(get|put)
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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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.