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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER?
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:47:28PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I thought it was completely useless, hence deprecated.
> 
> Anyone have any reason to defend it?

It's used in the net drivers to set their owner.  One could argue whether
it makes sense to use a macro for it or not, but as most drivers converted
to new-style refcounting use it I don't see any reason to deprecated it.