question about kref API

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Wed Jul 23 17:45:16 EDT 2014


On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:55:50 -0000, Jeff Haran said:
> > From: 'Greg KH' [mailto:greg at kroah.com]
> > > If you could elaborate on where the race condition is here, I think
> > > you'd being doing both me and the community a great service.
> >
> > Nice try with the "Do it for the community because I don't understand this!"
> > appeal, that doesn't work for me, sorry...
>
> Boy, I try to be as deferential as possible here and you come back with this snarky response.
>
> My experience is when software developers can't or won't explain how their
> code works, it's because they don't understand it themselves.

On the other hand, the kernel community does expect you to do a large chunk of
the learning for yourself - first, because Greg KH isn't a scalable resource,
and second, because if you take the time to figure it out for yourself,
you'll understand it better than if Greg walked you through it.

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