Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers ofsymbol_(get|put)

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sat Mar 10 2007 - 21:30:36 EST


On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 02:31 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When a module uses symbol_get() to increase the ref count of another
> module, there is no record what module called symbol_get(). A module
> can
> show up as having other users, but there is no way to tell who those
> users are.

Hi Mauro,

Interesting: in general you cannot tell who is using a module, but for
this case it makes sense. Your patch was linewrapped here, but it all
looks fine.

Thanks,
Rusty.

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