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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:23:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060217112355.GE28448@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060215214833.GA5066@stusta.de>

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..

For arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c you're right.  Other mca files can be built
modular and need odd symbols aswell, but mca.c is always built in.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-17 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-15 13:07 [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-15 14:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-17 11:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-17 12:31     ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-15 21:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-17 11:23   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-02-17 20:12     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-16 20:50 ` Olaf Titz

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