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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ax25 - make sure and hold ref to dev
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:28:01 -0700
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:13:28 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> The lower layers of ax25 hold a reference to the underlying device
> but don't increment the ref count. This is safe because it does the
> right thing when UNREGISTER notification comes in, but it is better
> to do the right thing.

Applied, thanks Stephen.