Message-Id: <200305142216.h4EMG3Gi009291@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM] add reference counting to atm_dev 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 2003 13:36:45 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:16:03 -0400
From: chas williams <chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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In message <20030514.133645.35032116.davem@redhat.com>,"David S. Miller" writes
:
>Nice.  You may wish to try and make it so that atm_dev_lock
>can be privatized to one file, using callbacks or something
>similar, so that the device list implementation isn't exported
>all over the place.

this would be pretty easy if one simply decided on a maximum number
of atm devices to have in a system.  scanning the list of adapters
would just involve atm_dev_lookup(itf num).

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