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It turns out future patches need this capability quite widely now, not just for netlink, so provide two global functions to manage the registration lock refcount. This also moves the point the lock becomes 1 to within ib_register_device() so that the semantics of the public API are very sane and clear. Calling ib_device_try_get() will fail on devices that are only allocated but not yet registered. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.