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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol_(get|put)
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:31:35 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote:
> From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
>
> When a module uses symbol_get() to increase the ref count of another
> module, there is no record what module called symbol_get(). A module
> can
> show up as having other users, but there is no way to tell who those
> users are.
>
> This adds that ability to symbol_put() and symbol_get().

One day I'll write a script which unwordwraps patches and then you'll all
need to find new ways of torturing me.

This patch needed rather a lot of help in the coding-style department.
Hopefully Rusty can comment on the content, because I'm all exhausted from
cleaning it up.

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