Re: [RFC net-next 05/10] devlink: remove the registration guarantee of references

Jiri Pirko
2023-01-02T14:32:12Z

Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 02:19:48AM CET, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
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>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?