Re: Notifiers in Linux 2.4.0-test2 and above

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Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 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

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

Agreed... Back it out, it should have been better in the first place :/

Here is the original patch, but not that not all of it needs to be
backed out:
http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/patches/2.4/2.4.0-test1-ac18/notifier-2.4.0.1.ac18.patch.gz

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