From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kref: add function for reading kref value
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:02:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111212150255.GA7506@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323693892-11570-1-git-send-email-dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:44:52PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> We can easily get kref refcount value by accesing
> kref->refcount but it is better to have a function
> for this.
No, you should NEVER need the value of the kref, if you do, you are
doing something wrong.
What code needs this patch?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 12:44 [PATCH] kref: add function for reading kref value Daniel Baluta
2011-12-12 12:51 ` Belisko Marek
2011-12-12 12:55 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-12-12 13:41 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-12-12 15:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-12-12 15:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-12-12 15:21 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-12-12 15:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-12 15:39 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-12-12 15:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-12 16:42 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-12-12 17:33 ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 17:46 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-12-12 17:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-12 18:33 ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 17:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-12 15:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
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