Re: Notifiers in Linux 2.4.0-test2 and above

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 13:17:36 EST


> > It seems that read/write locking was installed into the notifier subsystem in
> > Linux 2.4.0-test2 such that it is no longer possible to call
>
> Damn... It broke all the notifiers in net/ _completely_.
>
> The change should be either backed out, or networking
> will have to switch to private notifiers for netdevices.

So will reboot 8)

I think it needs backing out and reboot notifier wrappers need to do a
counting lock.

Alan

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