Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751307AbWBOVsf (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:48:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751308AbWBOVsf (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:48:35 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:25360 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751307AbWBOVsf (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:48:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:48:33 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export Message-ID: <20060215214833.GA5066@stusta.de> References: <20060215130734.GA5590@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060215130734.GA5590@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 28 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/