linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kref: add function for reading kref value

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Date:	Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:02:55 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kref: add function for reading kref value

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:44:52PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> We can easily get kref refcount value by accesing
> kref->refcount but it is better to have a function
> for this.

No, you should NEVER need the value of the kref, if you do, you are
doing something wrong.

What code needs this patch?

greg k-h
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