On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:32:08AM +0300, Matan Barak wrote: > This was already asked by Haggai Eran awhile ago and was answered. > Anyway, in ib_unregister_device we delete all client's related data. > We would like to ensure that all references were released before this > data is being deleted. Meaning, we would like to ensure the device > is still functioning but isn't referenced rather than just to avoid > freeing the IB device's memory.
A kref is the wrong datastructure for that purpose. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
