From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.69] IPV4 should use dev_hold Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 00:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030507.003242.104053566.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030506075808.388332C07F@lists.samba.org> <20030506.072338.39479306.davem@redhat.com> <20030506153234.4907001f.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@oss.sgi.com, acme@conectiva.com.br Return-path: To: shemminger@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20030506153234.4907001f.shemminger@osdl.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 15:32:34 -0700 While debugging possible changes to dev refcounting, discovered a couple of places in IPV4 that were directly incrementing rather than using the inline dev_hold. Let's hide the implementation of net device ref counting so future module ref count fixes will be easier. Applied, thanks. If you find any more, just send along another patch :-)