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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:09:36AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Hmm, I have some debug modules that do use that lock.  Is it possible to
> export it only if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL?

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  What's your debug module doing?
Should we just put it in the tree as builtin-code under a debug option?