Re: module: fix module_refcount() return when running in a module exit routine

[Rusty Russell]

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Actually, I don't think this is enough.  Some Australian once came up
> with a guide to APIs, and lectured on it at length, one of which was
> that the name should be the obvious use and it is unexpected that a
> refcount would go negative.  I think we could raise it from -6 on the
> API scale to +3 if we add some documentation like below.

Thanks, applied!

Cheers,
Rusty.
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