linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kref: remove kref

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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:54:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kref: remove kref_set

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:14:51PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> 
> Of the three uses of kref_set in the kernel:
> 
>  One really should be kref_put as the code is letting go of a
>     reference,
>  Two really should be kref_init because the kref is being
>     initialised.
> 
> This suggests that making kref_set available encourages bad code.
> So fix the three uses and remove kref_set completely.

Yeah!

I really didn't like kref_set at all anyway, and I thought that someone
"required it" which is why it was added.  Oh well, I'm glad it is now
gone, thanks so much for this patch.

greg k-h
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