On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:48:38PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > That said, I still don't much like this. > > > > I would much rather you make kref useful and use that. It still means > > you get to audit all refcounts in the kernel, but hey, you had to do > > that anyway. > > What needs to happen to kref to make it useful? Like many others, I've > been guilty of using atomic_t for refcounts in the past.
As it stands kref is a pointless wrapper. If it were to provide something actually useful, like wrap protection, then it might actually make sense to use it.
