Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER?

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:00:40 +0100

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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:46:52PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Christoph went through and substituted try_inc_mod_count to
> try_module_get, for no gain, and broke backwards compatibility.

You can still implement try_module_get and module_put on older
kernels. Jeff mostly cares about net drivers anyway that use neither :)

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