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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:04:16 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Migrating net/sched to new module interface
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:53:12AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Werner Almesberger wrote:
> 
> > > You can simplify this. All you need are the following simple functions:
> > >
> > > - void register();
> > > - void unregister();
> > > - int is_registered();
> > > - void inc_usecount();
> > > - void dec_usecount();
> > > - int get_usecount();
> > 
> > I'm not sure if you, you're not changing the semantics.
> 
> See above functions as primitives, which one can use to build any other
> resource management you want.

That same functionality is already present in a kobj for you to use,
instead of rolling your own resource management code. :)

(sorry, I couldn't help myself...)

greg k-h
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