On 15/6/07 17:22, "Kieran Mansley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The lock protects the use_count variable. Yes, that's one thing I noticed -- can you use atomic_t for reference counts and hence reduce the number of times you need to lock/unlock? At least the open-coded lock-decrement-test-maybe-free-unlock sequences could be abstracted into a put_foo() function. -- Keir - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html