Re: [RFC][PATCH] identify in_dev_get rcu read-side critical sections

[Suzanne Wood <suzannew@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Please excuse this restatement of an earlier concern.

  > From suzannew Sat Oct  1 11:00:28 2005

  > With the spotlight leaving in_dev_get, we have the parallel question 
  > of in_dev_put() and __in_dev_put()  both defined with refcnt 
  > decrement, but the preceding underscore may lend itself to an
  > inadvertant pairing and refcnt inaccuracy.

Dave Miller already addressed this question in 
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.3/0757.html 

  > It may not be reasonable to rename __in_dev_put for its parallel definition
  > since its current usage is with __in_dev_get_rtnl() which does not 
increment 
  > refcnt. 

But the following may be worth considering.

  > It is also probably good to retain the old __in_dev_get()
and deprecate it.

Thank you.