In message <20030514205949.GA3945@kroah.com>,Greg KH writes:
>Any reason to not just use a struct device here? This is a device,
>right? Or at the very least, a kobject would be acceptable.
actually, i think it should possibly be a netdevice. eventually
i will consider this path.
>Please don't roll your own reference counting code, when we've already
>gotten a in-kernel version that has been debugged quite well.
netdevice has this which is why i would probably use that. i would
also get kobject support for free there (or so i imagine)
>Is this going to help us be able to get rid of the MOD_* calls in ATM
>drivers soon?
no. a later patch will get rid of those though. next in the queue
will be to make atm itself modular and make vcc's do reference counting
(via their struct sock parent). i could fix the MOD_ nonsense next if
its really bothering you.
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