Re: [PATCH 1/2] kobject: add kobject_read()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 06:53:50AM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> 
> From: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We are counting kobject by using kobject_get/put(), but
> not have kobject_read() which can be used to check count.
> Let's add

No, please do not.  You should never care about this "count", and if we
do provide this, people will abuse it.

I understand that this might make some debugging harder, but if you
really need to write custom debugging code, then just use the internal
values.

sorry,

greg k-h