Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 16:46:24 EST


On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:07:34PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this
> lock. The only possibly modular users left are:
>
> arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
>...
> fs/binfmt_elf.c
>
> which I'll send out fixes for soon.
>...

These two can't be built modular.

cu
Adrian

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