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

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 10:09:13 EST


On 12/12/11, Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We can easily get kref refcount value by accesing
> kref->refcount but it is better to have a function
> for this.

You're missing a point. Refcount value as-is is not interesting.
You do GET/PUT operations and you don't care.
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