Re: [Patch 2.6.15-rc1] Clean up the die notifier registration routines

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:09:32 -0500 (EST), 
Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Remove the extraneous die_notifier_lock, notifier_chain_register()
>> and notifier_chain_unregister already take a lock.  Also there is some
>> work being done to make the generic notify code race safe and the
>> die_notifier_lock would get in that way of that rework.  See
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113175279131346&w=2
>
>Keith, can you delay this patch until the general notifier fixups have
>been merged?  Most of what you did duplicates changes that we are making
>and some of it will clash.

No problem.  SInce you are doing notifier cleanups as well, feel free
to fold my patch into yours.

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