Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:09:23 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: chas williams <chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: duncan.sands@wanadoo.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM] add reference counting to atm_dev
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:32:05AM -0400, chas williams wrote:
> In message <20030515052041.GA5995@kroah.com>,Greg KH writes:
> >It's not really bothering me, just wondering when it will go away (I see
> >it when building one of the USB ATM drivers...)
> 
> the MOD_* functions in the speedtch driver don't need to be there.  
> since 2.3.something (if i remember correctly) the reference counting
> has been handled by the upper layer (ala fops_get/fops_put).  the
> following patch removes these extra bits:

Thanks, didn't know they could be removed.  The speedtch author told me
a while ago that the fops didn't protect it...

I'll go apply this patch.

thanks,

greg k-h
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