On 1/11/2019 8:31 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > It turns out future patches need this capability quite widely now, > not just for netlink, so provide two global functions to manage the > registration lock refcount. > > This also moves the point the lock becomes 1 to within ib_register_device() > so that the semantics of the public API are very sane and clear. Calling > ib_device_try_get() will fail on devices that are only allocated but > not yet registered. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This looks good to me. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
