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Subject: Re: [take5 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:31:56 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:25:15 +0400

> Unfortunately it is impossible to use list_empty(), since due to RCU
> issues kevent can not use list_del_init(), so list_empty() will
> always show that list is not empty.

I see, just use the LIST_POISON* scheme for now, it's something
we can refine later.