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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Add kref_read and kref_put_last primitives
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:43:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040727104311.A18503@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040727070915.GC1270@obelix.in.ibm.com>; from kiran@in.ibm.com on Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0530

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> struct kref does just that.  The kref api are just abstractions for 
> refcounting which i presume is recommended for all refcounters in the
> kernel.  I am just converting the struct file.f_count refcounter
> to use kref with this patch.  

So what exactly does the API make easier?  APIs for the APIs sense don't
make much sense.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26 14:48 [patch] Add kref_read and kref_put_last primitives Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-26 14:56 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-26 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-27  7:09   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-27  9:43     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-02 20:08   ` Greg KH
2004-08-03  5:42     ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-08-03  6:51       ` Greg KH
2004-08-03  7:45         ` Dipankar Sarma

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