Re: [PATCH 2/4] chardev: Increment cdev reference count when i_cdev references it

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On Tue 04-11-14 10:52:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Currently i_cdev reference to a character device isn't accounted in the
> > reference count of the character device. This then requires us to track
> > all references through a list of all inodes referencing a character
> > device which is somewhat clumsy and requires list_head in each inode in
> > the system.
> > 
> > So make i_cdev a reference like any other.
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
  Thanks for review.

> Maybe you can rename the new variable to something like to_put also?
  Yes, that's better. Done.

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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