netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 05/10] devlink: remove the registration guarantee of references

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2023 15:18:09 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     jacob.e.keller@...el.com, leon@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 05/10] devlink: remove the registration guarantee
 of references

On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 15:32:04 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >Holding a reference will now only guarantee that the memory
> >of the object is around. Another way of looking at it is that
> >the reference now protects the object not its "registered" status.  
> 
> This would help to understand what you are doing in patch 3. Perphaps it
> would be fine to describe the goal in the cover letter?

Fair point, will do!