Re: [patch] Add kref_read and kref_put_last primitives

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:39:15PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> struct kref does just that.  The kref api are just abstractions for 
> refcounting which i presume is recommended for all refcounters in the
> kernel.  I am just converting the struct file.f_count refcounter
> to use kref with this patch.  

So what exactly does the API make easier?  APIs for the APIs sense don't
make much sense.

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