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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:02:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: Why /dev/sdc1 doesn't show up... 
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Hi,

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:

> And it *still* means you need two paths for your code: one for "I know
> it's not actually "active" yet, but I'm doing init and I need to
> access it anyway".  So every interface gains significant complexity by
> effectively implementing their own "live" flag...

Rusty, you know how refcounts work? Especially the "if 
(atomic_dec_and_test(&obj->ref)) cleanup(obj)" part is really interesting.

bye, Roman

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