On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> Sorry, what I meant was no one disagrees the old way of doing things (i.e.
> MOD_INC_USE_COUNT in open(), MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT in release() without any
> further protection) was broken. Your way works fine and doesn't even
Oh, sure. _That_ is definitely a total crap and needs to be fixed. I think
that we will be much safer with protecting all accesses that way, not only
function calls - data fields of net_device are also used with zero counter
and IMO having the refcount protection will make things much harder to
fuck up...
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