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.
next prev parent 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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