On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:54:32 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote: > kref_init(handlecount) initialises the number of handles to 1 upon > creation when it should remain 0 until the first allocation. All the > drivers were working around this by deleting the extra count when they > created the first handle for the object in spite of the documentation > saying that it was unecessary.
Aside from the fact that the kref API prevents this as kref_get() complains if called on a zero handlecount == 0. -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
