On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 06:53:59PM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
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> > Il giorno 12 nov 2018, alle ore 13:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > ha scritto:
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> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
> >> From: Angelo Ruocco
> >>
> >> The kernfs pseudo file system doesn't exp
> Il giorno 12 nov 2018, alle ore 13:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> ha scritto:
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> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> From: Angelo Ruocco
>>
>> The kernfs pseudo file system doesn't export any function to only find
>> a node by name, without also getting a referenc
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 04:28:40AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
> > From: Angelo Ruocco
> >
> > The kernfs pseudo file system doesn't export any function to only find
> > a node by name, without also getting a reference on it.
>
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
> From: Angelo Ruocco
>
> The kernfs pseudo file system doesn't export any function to only find
> a node by name, without also getting a reference on it.
> But in some cases it is useful to just locate a kernfs node, while
> using it
From: Angelo Ruocco
The kernfs pseudo file system doesn't export any function to only find
a node by name, without also getting a reference on it.
But in some cases it is useful to just locate a kernfs node, while
using it or not depends on some other condition.
This commit adds a function to ju
