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Re: Mixed use of MOD_INC_USE_COUNT and SET_MODULE_OWNER

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, John Tyner wrote:

> My understanding is that the new may makes the old obsolete but not wrong,
> per se. You just get the effect that you see where opens increment twice and
> closes decrement twice. I think that there are some cases that
> SET_MODULE_OWNER may not always catch for every driver, so mixing may not
> necessarily be wrong...

  That was the impression I got, just wanted to see what y'all
thought.  One of the more common approaches I saw is the use
of sprinkled #ifdef to allow for the < 2.4 kernels.  Seems that
might be the way to go.  Thanks for the input, John.

	Mike

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