Re: [PATCH] kref: add function for reading kref value

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 10:06:06 EST


On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:44:52PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> We can easily get kref refcount value by accesing
> kref->refcount but it is better to have a function
> for this.

No, you should NEVER need the value of the kref, if you do, you are
doing something wrong.

What code needs this patch?

greg k-h
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