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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: zwane@linuxpower.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER?
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:17:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030407091757.A28879@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030407064755.DEAD62C06C@lists.samba.org>; from rusty@rustcorp.com.au on Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:47:28PM +1000

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:47:28PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I thought it was completely useless, hence deprecated.
> 
> Anyone have any reason to defend it?

It's used in the net drivers to set their owner.  One could argue whether
it makes sense to use a macro for it or not, but as most drivers converted
to new-style refcounting use it I don't see any reason to deprecated it.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-07  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-07  6:47 SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-07  8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-04-07 18:29 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-08  2:01   ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-08  2:16     ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-08  3:41       ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-08  4:39         ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-09  0:46           ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-09  2:32             ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-08  2:27     ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-08  3:46       ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-08  6:00         ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-08 11:51         ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Alan Cox
2003-04-08 14:46           ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jamie Lokier
2003-04-08 15:12             ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-08 16:45               ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jamie Lokier
2003-04-08 17:19                 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
     [not found] <3E92515B.6030807@pobox.com>
2003-04-08 12:25 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-09  0:13   ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? David S. Miller
2003-04-09  1:03   ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-09  3:23     ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell
2003-04-09  3:48       ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Jeff Garzik
2003-04-09 15:00   ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Kai Germaschewski
     [not found] <3E93AA3D.4050104@pobox.com>
2003-04-09  5:27 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER? Rusty Russell

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