From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol_(get|put)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:09:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070311000938.80202418.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173501095.26213.405.camel@localhost>
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:31:35 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote:
> From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.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.
>
> This adds that ability to symbol_put() and symbol_get().
One day I'll write a script which unwordwraps patches and then you'll all
need to find new ways of torturing me.
This patch needed rather a lot of help in the coding-style department.
Hopefully Rusty can comment on the content, because I'm all exhausted from
cleaning it up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-11 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-10 4:31 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-03-11 2:29 ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-11 8:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-03-11 21:12 ` Oleg Verych
2007-03-12 14:07 ` Trent Piepho
2007-03-12 22:13 ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-13 6:33 ` Trent Piepho
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