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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:11:42PM +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:34, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I guess it's back to fixing up reference counting in the rest of the
> > kernel.  It's not hard, it's just not done. 8(
> 
> Do you know which subsystems and modules are definately broken wrt.
> refcounting? And also which ones are un-fixable / wont-fix and why.
> 
> Maybe someone will step up to the plate if you name and shame...

At the very least, the network drivers have some trouble...