Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:12:38 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:23:55PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:48:33PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> s390 and sparc64 allows a modular BINFMT_ELF32, which #includes
> fs/binfmt_elf.c after redefining various things.  But I suspect the
> right fix for this is to disallow building it modular..
>...

Argh, I hate code #include'ing .c files.

cu
Adrian

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