Re: [PATCH net 1/3] kref: add kref_sub_return

[David Miller]

From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:03:20 -0800

> So how about just "open coding" a kref for this structure, as it wants
> something that doesn't fit into the kref model, and should be pretty
> simple to do (you can ensure you get the locking right, unlike almost
> all users of krefs, as Al Viro constantly points out to me...)

They redid their patches meanwhile to use their own atomic_t.
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