Re: PATCH: switch ide-proc to use the ide_key functionality

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:06:22AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> I'll have a look at what occurs if we make the ->key functions ref count
> and add "put" functions. I think that can be made to work cleanly without
> changing the rest of the code to refcounts at the same time. It'll still need
> some locking because of the memset.  We would still have keys but we'd
> refcount usage off them as a starting point.

Ok fixed this by using the cfg_sem. refcounting breaks the non refcounted
code and its assumptions (good bad or otherwise). I've dropped the locking
in in such a way as switching to refcounts later is easier.

Alan

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