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Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2023 15:18:09 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc:     jacob.e.keller@intel.com, leon@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 05/10] devlink: remove the registration guarantee
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 15:32:04 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >Holding a reference will now only guarantee that the memory
> >of the object is around. Another way of looking at it is that
> >the reference now protects the object not its "registered" status.  
> 
> This would help to understand what you are doing in patch 3. Perphaps it
> would be fine to describe the goal in the cover letter?

Fair point, will do!