Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:43:11 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Add kref_read and kref_put_last primitives |
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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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