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

Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-02T23:18:16Z

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!