linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol

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Message-Id: <1173580154.32234.161.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:29:14 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of
	symbol_(get|put)

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 02:31 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>
> 
> When a module uses symbol_get() to increase the ref count of another
> module, there is no record what module called symbol_get().  A module
> can
> show up as having other users, but there is no way to tell who those
> users are.

Hi Mauro,

	Interesting: in general you cannot tell who is using a module, but for
this case it makes sense.  Your patch was linewrapped here, but it all
looks fine.

Thanks,
Rusty.

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