On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 22:51 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:44:55PM +0100, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > Actually not - I have to set reference counter to something other than 1 > > > > > or +/- 1, and thus will have to call kref_get() in a loop, which is a > > > > > very ugly step. Is there kref_set() or somethinglike that? At least not > > > > > in 2.6.22 what I'm using for now. > > > > > > > > Yeah, a loop would look pretty ugly. How about just adding kref_set(), > > > > if you need it. > > > > > > Well, then it distributed storage will not be able to build as > > > standalone module, and kref_set() itself will not be accepted as a single > > > patch, since there are no in-kernel users :) > > > It is easily doable though. > > > > Most rules have exceptions. :) Send a patch, so we can see how it looks > > like. > > It looks really non-trivial :) Yeah, it does. :) We miss an EXPORT_SYMBOL(), right? Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
