[PATCH 0/6] drm: Introduce consistent reference counting APIs

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Thu Feb 9 17:09:50 UTC 2017


On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 04:10:12PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2017, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This series introduces DRM reference counting APIs that are consistent
> > with other reference counting APIs in the kernel. They are also much
> > shorter. Compatibility aliases are added to keep existing code working
> > and will stay in place until all users of the old APIs are gone.
> 
> I like it.
> 
> But it makes drm_connector_list_iter_{get,put} stick out like a sore
> thumb. Something for the TODO list I guess.

Hm, why is that one the sore thumb now? Just because it's really long? It
does acquire/drop references behind the scenes, that's why I went with the
_get/put postfixes ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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