Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:10:51 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kobject: add kobject_read() |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 06:53:50AM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote: > > From: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> > > 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
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