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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Fernando Luis V?zquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	dedekind@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] try_module_get usage
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:41:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070711094149.GD19061@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184140531.4608.16.camel@sebastian.kern.oss.ntt.co.jp>

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:55:31PM +0900, Fernando Luis V?zquez Cao wrote:
> I keep seeing uses of try_module_get(THIS_MODULE) which seem to mimic
> the behavior of the former MOD_INC_USE_COUNT. The UBI driver is one
> example:

It's of course buggy as hell.  But UBI folks prefer not to listen to
advice and keep their bugs.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-11  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11  7:55 [PATCH RFC] try_module_get usage Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2007-07-11  8:11 ` [PATCH] UBI: cleanup usage of try_module_get Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2007-07-11  9:17   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-07-11  9:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-07-11 10:01   ` [PATCH RFC] try_module_get usage Artem Bityutskiy
2007-07-11 10:18 ` Rusty Russell

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